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Jeffrey Gusfield

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Born

in Peoria, IL, The United States

Website

http://www.deadlyvalentines.com/

Genre

History, Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction

Influences

The Greek playwrights, William Shakespeare, Ernest Hemmingway, William ...more

Member Since

January 2012

URL

https://www.goodreads.com/jeffreygusfield

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I learned my most important lessons about writing narrative history from my cousin, Pulitzer Prize winner Mackinlay Kantor (Mack wrote Andersonville, about the Confederate prison camp during the Civil War). I've been a dedicated Capone era researcher for over forty years, but my obsessive interest began when I was five, when famed Chicago photographer Anthony Berardi showed me a picture he took of the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre in 1929. I assume that most children would have been scarred; I was liberated.
I have a BFA from Drake University, where I learned from my mentor, Dr. W.S.E. "Doc" Coleman, that history was the best theater. I have an MLS from Lake Forest College, where my mentors Rosemary Cowler, Carol Gayle, and Dan LeMahieu re ...more