Scott "Scooter" Landon (d. 2004) was the son of Andrew Landon, the brother of Paul Landon, and the husband of Lisa Debusher. In 1988, he was shot by Gerd Allen Cole while breaking ground for the Shipman Library at the University of Tennessee. He was the author of The Coasters Daughter, Relics, Empty Devils, Outlaws Honeymoon, and The Secret Pearl, and the recipient of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize.