About the Author

TOM NOLAN has been a freelance writer for many publications (including Rolling Stone, The Village Voice, The New York Times Book Review, and Oxford American) since age 18-and a Ross Macdonald reader since age 11. He is the author of Ross Macdonald- A Biography (1999) and editor of Ross Macdonald's The Archer Files (2007). He is also the author of Artie Shaw, King of the Clarinet (reissued 2011) and has been crime fiction reviewer for The Wall Street Journal since 1990. He lives in Burbank, California.