Evan Mandery

Evan Mandery is the author of three novels: Dreaming of Gwen Stefani, published by Ig Books in 2007, First Contact (Or, It's Later Than You Think) published in 2010 by HarperCollins, and, most recently, Q. He has also written two works of non-fiction: The Campaign (Westview 1999), a funny chronicle of his year as research director on Ruth Messinger's doomed 1997 mayoral campaign, and Capital Punishment: A Balanced Examination (Jones & Bartlett 2011), a textbook on the death penalty. He is a professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and recently completed a history of two seminal Supreme Court death penalty cases from the 1970s, which will be published by W.W. Norton in the summer of 2013. You can visit Evan at www.evanmandery.com or at poker clubs and bowling alleys in the greater New York area.