Alimorad Fadaienia was born in Bibian, Iran, where he published short stories in a number of Iranian magazines, two novels, The Story of May Sixth, Nineteen Forty Six and Grass Walker, and a book of short stories, The Old Towers, in the late sixties and early seventies. Alimorad then came to the United States in the late seventies and published the first book of his novel Mim: The Story of Iranian Snakes (Sweden 1997). In 2002, he published two books in one volume, The Book of Shapur—A Novela and The Stories of No Names, from which this translated story comes. Another book of short stories, The Pronouns, was published in Tehran in 2004.