Steve Alten is the bestselling author of the Meg series—including Meg: Hell's Aquarium — a series of novels set around the fictitious survival of the megalodon, a giant prehistoric shark. He is also the author of the Domain trilogy and The Loch series. His work has been published in more than 30 countries and is being used in thousands of middle and high school curriculum as part of Adopt-An-Author, a free teen reading program, which he founded with teachers back in 1999.