Howard Blum is the author of Night of the Assassins, the New York Times bestseller and Edgar Award winner American Lightning, Wanted!, The Gold of Exodus, Gangland, The Floor of Heaven, and a 2018 New York Times Notable Book: In the Enemy's House. Blum is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. While at the New York Times, he was twice nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting. He is the father of three children, and lives in Connecticut.