Daniel Hecht is an American novelist who has written Skull Session (1997), The Babel Effect (2000), Puppets (2001), and is also known for the Cree Black series which contains City of Masks (2002), Land of Echoes (2004), and Bones of the Barbary Coast (2006). Before he started writing he played acoustic 6 and 12 string guitar and published three records: "Guitar" (1973), "Fireheart-Fireriver" (1977) and "Willow" (1980), which were released on Windham Hill.