JAMES DAVID HORAN (1914 - October 13, 1981) was an American newspaper editor, author and novelist. Born in New York City, he studied at Drake College in Jersey City and at the New York University W...ver maisJAMES DAVID HORAN (1914 - October 13, 1981) was an American newspaper editor, author and novelist. Born in New York City, he studied at Drake College in Jersey City and at the New York University Writing Center. He wrote more than 25 books, primarily history or historical fiction, and was employed as Special Events Editor for the New York Journal American for many years. He was the recipient of numerous awards for his books, and a member of many organizations of writers and historians.
GEROLD FRANK (August 2, 1907 - September 17, 1998) was an American war correspondent in the Middle East during World War II, author and ghostwriter. He wrote several celebrity memoirs and was considered a pioneer of the "as told to" form of (auto)biography, but two of his best-known books are in fact "Best Fact Crime" Edgar Award winners: The Deed (1963), a book about the assassination of Lord Moyne; and The Boston Strangler (1966), which was adapted as the 1968 movie starring Tony Curtis and Henry Fonda. He also wrote An American Death (1972), a book about the assassination of Martin Luther King.ver menos