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American true crime author and former columnist for the Arts and Leisure Section of The New York Times. Rosen's published works in the genre include Lobster Boy, There But For the Grace: Survivors of the 20th Century’s Infamous Serial Killers and When Satan Wore a Cross. He is also the winner of Library Journal’s Best Reference Source 2005 award for The Historical Atlas of American Crime, and has written many other works of historical non-fiction including Cremation in America, Contract Warriors and Gold!.
The Pennsylvania Skinhead Murders
1996
Kendall Francois, the Poughkeepsie Serial Killer
2002
2004
Sam Smithers, the Serial Killer Next Door
2000
The Bizarre True Story of Alaska's Killer Stripper
2009
From Lizzie Borden to the 20th Hijacker
2006
Cannibalism and Further Depravity on the Redneck Riviera
2003
Body Dump, Flesh Collectors, Lobster Boy, and Deacon of Death
2017
The Evil Mother Whose Gang Secretly Preyed on a City
1998
The Story of the 1848 Gold Rush and How It Shaped a Nation
2005
Turning the Tide in the 21st Century?
2006
The Bizarre Life and Brutal Death of Grady Stiles Jr.
1995
Alexander Graham Bell and the Race to Save James Garfield
2016
Battery Acid, Heroin, and Double Murder
2001
Louisiana's Most Gruesome Serial Killer
2009
How the Justice System Let a Mutilator Free, This Time to Kill
1998
2007
The True Story of National Forest Serial Killer Gary Hilton
2011
2007