About the Author

T.B. Calder

T.B. Calder studied history and law at American universities, which was either excellent preparation for this book or a complete waste of time.

The author has spent a professional lifetime observing how power is exercised, how institutions bend under pressure, and how the distance between official accounts and lived reality is sometimes narrow as a strait and sometimes the width of an ocean.

They write satire and fiction exploring power, authority, and the myths we build around them. The Book of Don is their first book. It will not require a second.

The scribe — the narrator who guides readers through all twelve books — is one of the most distinctive literary voices in recent satirical fiction. Part biblical chronicler, part late-night comedian, part world-weary historian who has seen quite enough but cannot stop writing anyway.

The scribe comments, digresses, pauses for professional interest, and occasionally addresses the reader directly with the exhausted authority of someone who has been taking notes on this era and wishes, sincerely, that there were fewer notes to take.

Calder's achievement is sustaining this voice across twelve full books — from Queens to the Oval Office, through impeachments and pandemics and rallies and trials — without ever breaking character, without ever descending into partisanship, and without ever losing the ability to make you laugh at a sentence you should probably take more seriously.

The result is a work that reads like the King James Bible was rewritten by someone who watches C-SPAN for entertainment and considers digressions an art form.