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John Florio was raised in Flushing, NY. He credits the streets of Queens as one of his earliest influences, along with black-and-white movies, old superhero comics, Sports Illustrated, Humphrey Bogart, and the Hardy Boys.

A fan of pop fiction and creative nonfiction, Florio is the author of the historical crime novels, Sugar Pop Moon and Blind Moon Alley. With Ouisie Shapiro, he has written the nonfiction books: Marked Man, Doomed, War in the Ring, One Nation Under Baseball, and One Punch from the Promised Land. Florio and Shapiro also contribute to The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Nation, and ESPN.

Florio holds several post-graduate degrees, including a Doctor of Fine Arts (DFA) from the University of Glasgow. He current ...more

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	Sugar Pop Moon (Jersey Leo, #1) 3.63 avg rating — 152 ratings — published 2013 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Doomed: Sacco, Vanzetti & the End of the American Dream by John Florio (Goodreads Author), Ouisie Shapiro 3.89 avg rating — 123 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Marked Man: Frank Serpico’s Inside Battle Against Police Corruption by John Florio (Goodreads Author), Ouisie Shapiro 3.97 avg rating — 100 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	One Nation Under Baseball: How the 1960s Collided with the National Pastime by John Florio (Goodreads Author), Ouisie Shapiro 3.86 avg rating — 97 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	One Punch from the Promised Land: Leon Spinks, Michael Spinks, and the Myth of the Heavyweight Title by John Florio (Goodreads Author), Ouisie Shapiro 4.41 avg rating — 70 ratings — published 2013 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	War in the Ring: Joe Louis, Max Schmeling, and the Fight between America and Hitler by John Florio (Goodreads Author), Ouisie Shapiro 3.92 avg rating — 60 ratings — published 2019 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Blind Moon Alley (Jersey Leo, #2) 3.66 avg rating — 62 ratings — published 2014 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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