Bruce Laxalt was born and raised in Reno, Nevada, living two years as a child in southern France. He attended Stanford University, obtaining a degree in philosophy in 1973 and studying creating writing under Albert J. Gerard.

After graduating from Stanford Law School in 1976, he worked as a lawyer with the Department of Justice in Washington DC for a year. He then returned to Nevada, where he has practice law since - first as a homicide prosecutor and later as a civil litigator. He formed the statewide law firm of Laxalt and Nomura and is listed in Best Lawyers In America as well as in Chambers U.S.A.

In 2001 he was diagnosed with ALS. The diagnosis was questioned for several years but ultimately confirmed. He continues to practice law both from his office in Nevada and his home in the Caribbean.

Songs of Mourning and Worship is his first book.

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