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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

H
AROLD
S
CHECHTER
is a professor of American literature and culture at Queens College, the City University of New York. He is widely celebrated for both fiction and true-crime writing, including
The Serial Killer Files
. He lives in Brooklyn and Mattituck, Long Island, with his wife, the poet Kimiko Hahn.

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