About the Author

STANLEY COHEN IS a veteran award-winning journalist. For more than fifty years, he has worked as an editor, writer, and reporter for newspapers, magazines, and an international news service. He also has taught writing, journalism, and philosophy at Hunter College and New York University. His work has appeared in numerous publications, including The New York Times, Inside Sports, and Sports, Inc.; he was also a contributing writer for The Diamond magazine.

He is the author of ten previous books, including The Game They Played, which was ranked among the Top 100 Sports Books of All Time by the editors of Sports Illustrated, and The Wrong Men, which dealt with the epidemic of wrongful death-row convictions and the scourge of capital punishment. Cohen also served as program consultant for the award-winning television documentary City Dump, which dealt with the 1951 college basketball scandal.

In the 1960s, Cohen took part in the campaign to abolish capital punishment in New York State and received a citation from Al Blumenthal, who sponsored the abolition bill in the State Assembly.

He resides in Tomkins Cove, New York, with his wife, Betty. Their two children and four grandchildren also live in the New York metropolitan area.