Paul Catanese is an American author and advertising writer that writes under the pseudonym P. W. Catanese.^[1] Catanese is best known for his Books of Umber series,^[2] which has been mostly well received.^[3][4] As a teenager, Catanese attended Trumbull High School in Trumbull, Connecticut, later attending the University of Connecticut and taking a job with an advertising company in Glastonbury, Connecticut.^[5]

• Happenstance Found (2006)^[6][7][8]
• Dragon Games (2009)^[9][10][11]
• The End of Time (2010)^[12]

• The Brave Apprentice (2004)^[13]
• The Eye of the Warlock (2004)
• The Thief and the Beanstalk (2005)^[14]
• The Mirror’s Tale (2005)^[15]
• The Riddle of the Gnome (2006)

• P. W. Catanese at Library of Congress, with 12 library catalog records