The Boy with the Jade

Bush, Charles: - Originally from Kansas City, Missouri, Charles Bush earned degrees from Harvard College and the University of California, Berkeley, both in history. But faced with a dismal job market for professional historians, he switched directions, attended the University of Chicago Law School, and became a lawyer. In the early 2000s Bush phased out his law practice to focus on writing fiction. He mined his legal career for his first two novels: What Went Wrong with Oscar Toll? and Houseboat Wars. With his latest, The Boy with the Jade, he returns to his first love-history. Bush lives in San Francisco with his husband in an 1877 Victorian they've restored.