William Elliott Hazelgrove wrote from the attic of Ernest Hemingway's birthplace in Oak Park, Illinois from 1998-2008. His tenure there was covered by The New York Times, Publishers Weekly, C-SPAN, USA Today, LA Times, PBS, Chicago Tribune, The Plain Dealer, the Globe and Mail, and NPR's All Things Considered. He has a Masters in History and is the best-selling author of ten novels and seven narrative nonfiction books: Madame President: The Secret Presidency of Edith Wilson, Forging a President: How the West Created Teddy Roosevelt (Regnery Publishing), Al Capone and the 1933 World's Fair (Rowman and Littlefield). He lives in Chicago, Illinois.