Carter Wilson is the author of six novels, a children's story, and two earlier books of ethnographic nonfiction. As a young man he lived in Mayan communities in southern Mexico and wrote and produced a documentary film called "Appeals to Santiago" about an eight-day Mayan religious festival, "Appeals to Santiago" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKG94SRJtg4). Later he studied Quechua people's use of coca leaf in Peru on a grant from the U.S. National Institute on Drug Abuse. His children's novel, On Firm Ice, is about Netsilik Inuit people of Canada, Treasures On Earth, a fictional account of the discovery of Machu Picchu in Peru seen through the eyes of a photographer who is also in the midst of discovering he is gay. Wilson’s first novel, Crazy February, has been in print 59 years. He wrote the narration for two Oscar-winning documentaries, "The Times of Harvey Milk" (with Judith Coburn) and "Common Threads," and received the Ruth Benedict Prize from the gay section of the American Anthropology Association for his "Hidden in the Blood.”
