Michael Capuzzo is the author of the New York Times nonfiction bestsellers Close to Shore, a People magazine “Top Ten” book of the year, and The Murder Room, nominated for the Edgar Award and a finalist for the Crime Writers’ Association (UK) Gold Dagger Award for best true-crime book. Both books were nominated for the National Book Award. A six-time Pulitzer nominee and former Philadelphia Inquirer reporter, he has won more than 300 journalism awards and written for The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Esquire, Sports Illustrated. A keynote speaker often featured by NPR and national media for his books and science writing, Mike lives in Wellsboro, Pennsylvania, where he and his wife, Teresa Banik Capuzzo, publish an award-winning regional magazine, Mountain Home.
