Ken Crowe lives in Melville on Long Island where he writes, reads, watches films, cooks, bakes, and exercises.
He was born in Manhattan, grew up in Woodside, Queens, graduated from Fordham Prep and Fordham College, served as a sergeant in the U.S. Army, and was a reporter on the Second Army Sentinel, the Endicott Daily Bulletin, the Syracuse Herald-Journal, Newsday, and New York Newsday.
His novels include THE JYNX, THE DREAM DANCER, OOOEELIE, THE HERO, THE TRUCKERS, THE ABSCONDER, and BEN CONNOLLY in the PARIS COMMUNE.
In addition, he is the author of two nonfiction books: COLLISION/How the Rank and File Took Back the Teamsters and AMERICA FOR SALE/An alarming look at foreign money is buying our country.
Crowe won an Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellowship in 1974 to study foreign investment in the United States. He was a member of the Newsday investigative team whose work won the 1970 Pulitzer Prize Gold Medal.
Website: www.kennethccrowe.com
Blog: www.kennethcrowe.blogspot.com