Wilmot B. Irvin practices law in Columbia, South Carolina. For many years he and his wife lived on a farm in rural Lower Richland, where they reared a son and two daughters, seven dogs, four cats, two goats, countless pigs, dozens of hens and roosters, and five horses. 

The author was born in 1950. He began writing fiction a decade ago and has published four full-length novels, Jack's Passage, There Is a River, The Storytellers, and Merriman’s Second Chance, and a novella entitled Some Kind of Kin. A novelette, Chronicle of the Life and Times of Fletcher Lowe, is scheduled for release in 2010. Irvin has written numerous short stories.

His works explore the depth and vitality–and often the fragility–of human relationships. Fear and faith, loss and fulfillment, evil and redemption, guilt and deliverance are themes that frequent his evocative and colorful stories, populated by interesting characters poignant in their struggles and triumphs.