Author: Daniel Serrano
Bio: <b><a href="http://www.hachettebookgroupusa.com/authors/daniel-serrano/">Daniel Serrano</a></b> is a New York City lawyer and novelist.  His novels include <i>Boogie Down</i> and <i>Gunmetal Black</i>, and are informed by a childhood spent in hardscrabble neighborhoods in New York and Chicago.  Serrano received his undergraduate education through the <a href="http://www.shimer.edu/academicprograms/undergraduate/weekendprogram.cfm">weekend degree program</a> at <a href="http://shimer.edu">Shimer College</a>, a small Great Books college in the Chicago area, and his legal education at St. John's University.  (from <a href="http://shimercollege.wikia.com/Daniel_Serrano#Brief_description">Shimer College Wiki</a>)