I am the author of three American gangster biographies: "Guns and Roses- the Untold Story of Dean O'Banion", "The Man Who Got Away- the Bugs Moran Story", and "The Starker: Big Jack Zelig, the Becker-Rosenthal Case, and the Advent of the Jewish Gangster". My fourth book, "The Killing of Bill the Butcher: William Poole and the Battle for Old New York", will be released by Our Gotham Press in June 2011.
I appear regularly on television and radio specials about America's gangster past. |
Favorite Writers and Artists:
Bill Helmer, Rick Mattix, Mike Dash, Pat Downey, Ellen Poulsen, Ed Butts, Karen Abbott, Thomas Hunt
Current Projects:
"The Killing of Bill the Butcher- William Poole and the Battle for Old New York": the first biography of New York's bloodiest patriot. Co-authored with Seth F. Abrams