I have been a celebrity biographer for thirty years. My subjects include Princess Grace, Kennedy in-law Peter Lawford, Ronald Reagan, the Bush family, Jackie Onassis, Barbra Streisand and Marilyn Monroe, among others. I have always had a compulsion to write and a fascination with larger-than-life figures, and I have been fortunate enough to make a career combining both. As a boy I loved reading Edgar Allan Poe stories. To write a novel about him was inspired by "Girl With a Pearl Earring." As I was reading it on a train back to Boston from New York City, I wondered more...
