About the Author
The scribe behind the sacred chronicle
T.B. Calder
T.B. Calder is a pen name. The author writes fiction and satire about power, performance, institutions, and myth. The work is what matters; the author would prefer not to be the subject of it.
The Book of Don is the result. The reader is invited to take the book seriously and the author lightly.
"This is a work of literary satire. It draws upon real events, public reporting, and the documented record of contemporary American life. It is not a work of journalism or history in the conventional sense. No such ancient manuscripts exist."
— Author's Note, The Book of DonThe Voice of the Scribe
The scribe is the book's central device: the narrator who guides readers through all twelve books. Part biblical chronicler, part political observer, part exhausted comic witness.
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.
The voice is sustained deliberately across twelve full books — from Queens to the Oval Office, through impeachments and pandemics and rallies and trials — without breaking character and without taking sides. The intent is to make you laugh at sentences 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.
T.B. Calder is a pen name. The author writes in a personal capacity. This book is not affiliated with, authorized by, endorsed by, or prepared on behalf of any government agency, military service, public office, political campaign, political party, or partisan organization.