Bondurant, Matt: - nMatt Bondurant's previous novels include Oleander City, a historical novel about the Galveston Hurricane of 1900, The Night Swimmer, which was featured in the New York Times Book Review and Outside magazine, The Wettest County in the World, an international bestseller that was adapted into the feature film Lawless, and his first novel, The Third Translation, also an international bestseller, translated into fourteen languages. Matt has published numerous short stories, poems, essays, and book reviews, as well as feature articles specializing in adventure and endurance sports. He currently lives in Oxford, Mississippi.n