This is Erik Forrest Jackson's first book. He spent
more than a decade as an executive editor for magazines including
Entertainment Weekly and InStyle. As an award-winning dramatist,
his work has been produced internationally and includes Like a
Billion Likes (winner of the Southwest Playwriting Competition and
the Chesley/Bumbalo Foundation Playwriting Award); the Neil Sedaka
musical Breaking Up Is Hard to Do; Carrie, a black-comedy
adaptation of Stephen King’s novel; the Off Broadway comic thriller
Tell-Tale (Best Play GLADD nomination); and Cheers Live on Stage, a
theatrical version of the beloved TV series. His poems were
featured in the Showtime film The Escape, starring Patrick
Dempsey, and his articles have appeared
in Glamour, W, Real Simple, Allure,
and Town & Country. He grew up in Texas, studied acting and
poetry at the University of Southern California, and now lives in
Harlem.
Gaston Leroux (1868-1927) was born in Paris, France. After
leaving school, Leroux worked as a clerk in a law office and, in
his free time, began writing essays and short stories. By 1890 he
had become a full-time journalist, sailing the world as a
correspondent. He began writing novels in the early 1900s and was
inspired by Alexandre Dumas, Victor Hugo, Jules Verne, and Edgar
Allan Poe. In 1911, he wrote The Phantom of the Opera.
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