The author lives on the Sonoma coast about one hundred miles north of San Francisco. He has written six other books, including the tetralogy, Echoes and Silences. A Golden Thread is the second volu...voir plusThe author lives on the Sonoma coast about one hundred miles north of San Francisco. He has written six other books, including the tetralogy, Echoes and Silences. A Golden Thread is the second volume in a projected series entitled The Four Pillars; the first volume in that series, An Open Texture, was published in 2006.voir moins