Alan DuffAlan Duff is a New Zealand columnist, advocate, businessperson and the author of 11 novels. He is best known for his bestselling 1990 novel, Once Were Warriors, which won the PEN Best First Book for Fiction Award and was made into an internationally cclaimed film, for which Duff wrote the original screenplay. He subsequently wrote two sequels, What Becomes of the Broken Hearted? (1996), which won the Montana New Zealand Book Award for Fiction, and Jake's Long Shadow (2002). Other works include the novels Dreamboat Dad, Frederick's Coat, and One Night Out Stealing as well as a non-fiction book Maori: The Crisis and the Challenge. Duff lives with his wife and four children in Havelock North, New Zealand. Read More Read Less