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Michael Punke

Biography

Michael Punke

Michael Punke is the author of several books, including THE REVENANT, a #1 New York Times bestseller and basis for the Academy Award–winning film. In his diverse professional career, Punke has served as the US ambassador to the World Trade Organization in Geneva, history correspondent for the Montana Quarterly, and an adjunct professor at the University of Montana. As a high school and college student, he worked summers as a living history interpreter at Fort Laramie National Historic Site in Wyoming. He lives with his family in Montana and is an avid outdoorsman.

Michael Punke

Books by Michael Punke

Ridgeline
by Michael Punke - Fiction, Historical Fiction

In 1866, with the country barely recovered from the Civil War, new war breaks out on the western frontier --- a clash of cultures between the Native tribes who have lived on the land for centuries and a young, ambitious nation. Colonel Henry Carrington arrives in Wyoming’s Powder River Valley to lead the US Army in defending the opening of a new road for gold miners and settlers. Carrington intends to build a fort in the middle of critical hunting grounds, the home of the Lakota. Red Cloud, one of the Lakota’s most respected chiefs, and Crazy Horse, a young but visionary warrior, understand full well the implications of this invasion. For the Lakota, the stakes are their home, their culture, their lives.

The Revenant: A Novel of Revenge
by Michael Punke - Fiction, Historical Fiction, Western

THE REVENANT is a remarkable tale of obsession, the human will stretched to its limits and the lengths that one man will go to for retribution --- soon to be a major motion picture starring Leonardo DiCaprio.