Howard Blum is the author of New York Times bestsellers including Dark Invasion, the Edgar Award–winner American Lightning, as well as Wanted!, The Gold Exodus, Gangland, and The Floor of Heaven. Blum is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. While at the New York Times, he was twice nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting. He is the father of three children, and lives in Connecticut. Get in touch! Website: www.HowardBlum.com Email: Howard@HowardBlum.com Facebook: Like Howard Blum on Facebook Twitter: @HowardBlum and @FloorOfHeaven

John Connolly was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1968 and has, at various points in his life, worked as a journalist, a barman, a local government official, a waiter and a dogsbody at Harrods department store in London. He studied English in Trinity College, Dublin and journalism at Dublin City University, subsequently spending five years working as a freelance journalist for The Irish Times newspaper, to which he continues to contribute. He is based in Dublin but divides his time between his native city and the United States. This page is administered by John's assistant, Clair, on John's behalf. If you'd like to communicate with John directly, you can do so by writing to contact-at-johnconnollybooks.com, or by following him on Twitter at @JConnollyBooks. Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. See other authors with similar names.

Denise Grollmus is a writer whose work has appeared in the 2006 Best American Crime Writing anthology, Wax Poetics, Spin Magazine, The Akron Beacon Journal, The Cleveland Free Times, The Cleveland Scene, True Crime Report and other Village Voice Media papers. Born in Los Angeles, California, Denise was flung far from the West Coast to Akron, Ohio in 1992, where she learned to love Devo. Really Love DEVO. And pierogies. In 2003, she graduated from Oberlin College (where she wrote her honors thesis on, ehem, Devo). Before being hired by the VVM Empire in 2004, Denise attended the Academy for Alternative Journalism at Medill, where she stopped writing about Devo and started writing literary journalism about drunk Amish girls, mercenary boxers, bad politicians, and true crime. Now—when Denise isn’t too busy eating Ritter Sport, tweeting Belle and Sebastian lyrics, or reading Saul Bellows—she is working on her MFA in Creative Nonfiction at Pennsylvania State University, where she also indoctrinates the youth of the Midwest (and beyond) with her writing philosophy: namely supplementary readings from Gay Talese and Ann Lamott’s Bird by Bird. Denise is also the co-author of The Ohio Knitting Mills Knitting Book on Artisan/Workman Publishing. It’s not just a book for knitters, but anyone who can appreciate American cultural history, fashion, Mid-Century Modern design, and industrial history. It’s a colorful yarn through the 40s, 50s, 60s, and 70s!

Jimmy Breslin was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American columnist and author. He wrote numerous novels, and pieces of his have appeared regularly in various newspapers in his hometown of New York City. He was a regular columnist for the newspaper Newsday until his retirement on November 2, 2004. Among his notable columns, perhaps the best known was published the day after John F. Kennedy's funeral, focusing on the man who had dug the president's grave. The column is indicative of Breslin's style, which often highlights how major events or the actions of those considered "newsworthy" affect the "common man."