Frank O'Neill

I grew up in Hillside, New Jersey and began writing in my teens. At 20, I hitchhiked to California and landed a job as West Coast music writer for GQ Scene, an Esquire magazine for teenage boys. Later, I traveled in Mexico and Central and South America, writing for stateside magazines, teaching English as a second language and trying to stay out of the way of drug dealers, revolutionaries and rogue governments. A lot of my fiction is drawn from those days.

In 1992 I started my own business magazine, which I sold after 15 highly successful years so I could get back to my first love — writing fiction. Georgia Bound was the first effort in my journey.

My latest novel, To Kill A Dictator, is a fictional account of the last days of Anastasio Somoza, the former dictator of Nicaragua. It's inspired by my experiences in Nicaragua during the last days of the Sandinista revolution.