About the Author

Richard Sullivan is the great grandson of THE FIRST WARD's protagonist, Detective Sergeant James Sullivan of Buffalo Precinct 7. Four generations of Sullivan's ancestors lived in Buffalo's First Ward. The author's father was born and raised in the First Ward and brought up his nine children on stories of his youth spent there, which at one time terrified them, but in more recent times, fascinates. Sullivan is the author of two highly successful award-winning Hawaii photo-guidebooks, DRIVING & DISCOVERING OAHU and DRIVING & DISCOVERING MAUI & MOLOKAI, as well as a fitness book directed to people over 40, but whose counsel applies to all ages, titled RECLAIM YOUR YOUTH: Growing Younger After 40.