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Shawn Thomas Odyssey is an Edgar and Agatha award nominated author as well as a film, television, and video game music composer. His ''Wizard of Dark Street (Oona Crate Mystery)'' series chronicles the adventures of twelve-year-old magical detective Oona Crate and her enchanted raven Deacon as they solve mysteries in the alternate world of Dark Street. He is also known for co-composing the music for Deadwood on HBO, and as the composer for the video game Kung Fu Panda. == Biography == Odyssey began playing guitar and piano at age thirteen. Two years later he wrote his first novel. At nineteen Odyssey moved from his home town of Bakersfield, California to Santa Barbara, California. There he joined the Ensemble Theatre Company, a professional theatre company where he worked as an actor, artistic director's assistant, sound designer, and composer. In 2000 Odyssey began working with film music composers Reinhold Heil, Johnny Klimek, and Bruce Winter, to create the soundtracks for films such as Blood & Chocolate (2007), Land of the Dead (2005), The Cave (2005), Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (2005), Iron Jawed Angels (HBO) (2004), as well as the score for Deadwood (HBO) (2006), and Without A Trace (CBS) (2002)〔 He has also worked at Hans Zimmer‘s Remote Control Productions studio with composer Heitor Pereira on the soundtrack for Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights. In 2008 Odyssed scored the music for the Dreamworks/Activision video game Kung Fu Panda. In 2011 Odyssey published his first middle-grade/young-adult novel ''The Wizard of Dark Street: an Oona Crate Mystery'' (Egmont USA, 2011). The book was a top 20 ABC New Voices selection from the American Booksellers Association and was subsequently nominated for both an Edgar Award and an Agatha Award.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=ABC New Voices )〕 His second published novel ''The Magician's Tower (A Sequel To The Wizard Of Dark Street)'' was published February 2013. The third book in the Oona Crate Mystery series, entitled "The Magician's Dream", is scheduled for release Jun 23, 2015. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Shawn Thomas Odyssey」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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