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JAMES POLCHIN, Ph.D., is a writer, professor, and cultural historian. His book Indecent Advances- A Hidden History of True Crime and Prejudice Before Stonewall was an Edgar Award finalist, Macavity Award Nominee, and named one of the Best True Crime Books of the Year by CrimeReads. His writing has appeared in Slate, TIME, Huffington Post UK, CrimeReads, Paris Review, Rolling Stone, NewNextNow, and the Gay and Lesbian Review Worldwide. He is a Clinical Professor at New York University, and has previously taught at the Princeton Writing Program, the Parsons School of Design, the New School, and the Creative Nonfiction Foundation. He lives in New York with his husband, the photographer Greg Salvatori, and a Labrador named Albert.
"""Shadow Men cements his place in the new true crime canon."" —Molly Odintz, CrimeReads ""Polchin combines a novelist’s gift for narrative and a journalist’s eye for detail in this riveting work of true crime . . . It’s an entertaining account of an obscure yet fascinating crime."" —Publishers Weekly ""Readers today will—as were readers in the 1920s—be confounded by the crime's lack of resolution, which presages modern-day issues of money, political power, gambling, homophobia, media coverage, and accountability—or lack thereof—in America."" —Booklist ""A sensational crime provokes thought about class privilege and injustice in the American legal system."" —Kirkus Reviews ""Shadow Men unwinds a complex murder investigation about the moral decadence of the Jazz Age, the façade of privileged class mores, and the power of William Randolph Hearst’s empire of yellow journalism to shape public perception. Polchin brilliantly balances historical detail and forward momentum in a true crime tale that exposes the great inequities in our justice system, the shadows of which still loom today."" —John Copenhaver, award-winning author of Hall of Mirrors ""James Polchin's triumphant Shadow Men weaves a Jazz Age whodunit out of Hitchcock, a richly laden escapade of gentlemen's intrigue and the roughest of rough trade blackmail. This devilishly plotted potboiler exposes a champagne underworld of confidence men, blowoffs and suckers in a 1920s America that only gets queerer and queerer."" ––Robert W. Fieseler, Author of the Edgar Award Winner Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation"
