PGH True Crime Panel
Event description
PGH True Crime Panel: Richard Gazarik, Jason Kirin, & Paul Hodos
Moderated by David Rotenstein | Building: Long Hall | Room: John Knox | 1:45 PM - 2:45 PM
After the presentation, the author will be signing books in a tent outside next to the Information Tent.
Their books will be available at the bookstore in the atrium of Long Hall.
Biographies
Richard Gazarik is a former journalist turned author who has published six books with a seventh due in June. Among his works are Black Valley; The Life and Death of Fannie Sellins; Prohibition Pittsburgh; Wicked Pittsburgh; Swinging in the Steel City. A History of Jazz in Pittsburgh; and The Pennsylvania Turnpike Phantom Killer.
Paul Hodos is the author of Steel City Mafia: Blood, Betrayal and Pittsburgh's Last Don from the History Press and is a former FBI Supervisory Intelligence Analyst.
Graduate of the University of Pittsburgh and the New Orleans School for the Imagination, Kirin has spent his life studying ASL, literature, juggling, and poetry. Accordingly devoting his life to creativity and collaboration. His most recent work is an exploration of Pittsburgh's seedy history with crime. And his grandmother's central role in toppling the once revered Vice Squad of the 1950s.