The Boston Mob Guide: Hit Men, Hoodlums & Hideouts (MA) (The History Press)
Beverly Ford is a Boston-based journalist and author who has spent more than twenty years as a reporter and freelance writer for the Boston Herald, theNew York Daily News, theLondon Times, theLondon Mirror, Access Magazine, Bloomberg Newsand other publications. She has written about mob murders and court trials involving several people profiled in this book. She currently works as a freelance investigative journalist for theNew England Center for Investigative Journalism. She has ghostwritten two books, including a 1991 book on the Kennedy family, and also authored a book on domestic violence in 2001 for Information. She was among several reporters awarded the 1991 Associated Press Spot News Award for team coverage of a train accident and received awards in 1991 and 1995 for juvenile justice reporting from Parents of Murdered Children. She was also a guest panelist at a 2009 Neiman Foundation series at Harvard University and has lectured on crime and breaking news coverage at Boston-area colleges and universities.Stephanie Schorow is a Boston-based freelance writer, author, teacher and artist. She is the author ofThe Crime of the Century: How the Brink's Robbers Stole Millionsand theHearts of Boston;East of Boston: Notes from the Harbor Islands(The History Press, 2008);Boston on Fire: A History of Fires and Firefighting in Boston; andThe Cocoanut Grove Fire. She was the editor ofBoston's Fire Trail: A Walk Through the City's Fire and Firefighting History(The History Press, 2007). She has spent thirty years working for various news organizations, including theBoston Herald, theTABchain, theStamford Advocateand theAssociated Press. She currently works as a freelancer for theBoston Globeand teaches writing at the Cambridge Center for Adult Education. She is working on her next book on Boston's drinking history.