Dan Conti

The author's career spanned more than 40 years as a broadcast news reporter, anchor, and producer in Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky. He won more than 35 awards from the Associated Press, including honors for seven documentaries. Pikeville is Conti's second novel. The first, Nittany Lion (2023-24), is about a Vietnam veteran who returns to Pennsylvania in 1970 and the struggles endured by his young family. URlink called the book "a quiet triumph" and Books to Life Marketing described it as "a powerful, intimate portrait of a family trying to hold itself together as the world around them fractures."