Jeff Gillenkirk

Jeff Gillenkirk is an author and journalist whose articles and book reviews have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, The Nation, Mother Jones, America and other publications. His non-fiction book, "Bitter Melon: Inside America's Last Rural All-Chinese Town," won the Commonwealth Club's Silver Medal award for best California history. His novel "Home, Away" was chosen as one of the top five baseball novels of all time by Baseball America and his novel "Pursuit of Darkness" was chosen by NPR's Margot Adler as "the best of the lot" in the genre of political vampire thrillers (read Margot's review at http://n.pr/2cGaBh4). A sixth edition of "Bitter Melon" was recently released to help celebrate the town of Locke's 100th anniversary as "America's Last Rural All-Chinese Town."