David Evanier is the bestselling author of nine books, including All the Things You Are: The Life of Tony Bennett, Roman Candle: The Life of Bobby Darin and Making The Wiseguys Weep: The Jimmy Roselli Story. He received the Aga Khan Fiction Prize and the McGinniss-Ritchie Short Fiction Award, and is a former fiction editor of The Paris Review. He is married and lives in Brooklyn.