Kurt Chandler

KURT CHANDLER has worked as a newspaper reporter, magazine writer, editor and author. An award-winning writer, he has authored, coauthored, or edited 12 books, many of them biographies. The former editor of Milwaukee Magazine, he lives with his wife in the Milwaukee area.

Chandler has also been published in a number of metro newspapers and magazines, from The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle and Minneapolis Star Tribune, to Marie Claire, The Writer, Salon.com and TheAtlantic.com.

In previous lives, Chandler worked construction, drove a cab and played the banjo (not necessarily at the same time). He has toiled as a writer and journalist for three decades now and, unmindful of his father's advice, has nothing to fall back on. Yet he is not without a specialized set of skills: He can take notes in the dark and is pretty good with active verbs.