James Oliver "Jim" Curwood (1878-1927) was an American action-adventure writer and conservationist. His books ranked among Publisher's Weekly top-ten best sellers in the United States in the early 1920s. Back to God's Country includes "thirteen of Curwood's most famous tales of the Northland. Here are the snows and chilling cold of the Arctic Circle, the loneliness of the Great Barrens, the sputter and play of the Northern Lights, the intense silence of the wilderness forests."