ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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About the Author
When I was in college, a humanities professor described how novelists, philosophers, and artists use their works to probe the essence of life. He called this “the Big Picture.”
As a reporter for the New York Times
and the Wall Street Journal, I wrote about many subjects, but rarely
the Big Picture. As an author, I try to get as close as I can.
Cheating Destiny seems to be very different than my previous three books. Hurricane was about the wrongful murder convictions of the boxer Rubin Carter. Riot and Remembrance described the worse race riot in American history, in Tulsa, Oklahoma. And in Two Souls Indivisible I recounted the friendship that saved two American POWs in Vietnam.
These stories cover different people, in different places, at different times; but all of my books – including Cheating Destiny – have one thing in common. They are all about survival. How does an innocent man survive maximum security prison, or a family survive a riot, or a combat pilot survive a POW camp?
Diabetes is also about survival, with a twist. The enemy is within.