About
Anne Morrissy is a nonfiction writer with a passion for narrative history. Since 2021, she has served as the editor of At The Lake Magazine in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. Her writing has appeared in the Wisconsin Magazine of History, American Spirit Magazine and many local and regional publications. She is the author of Running the Reds: The First 100 Years of the Water Safety Patrol, 1920-2020. A graduate of Kenyon College, she splits her time between the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago and her hometown of Williams Bay, Wisconsin.
Featured Work
Street Fight: The Chicago Taxi Wars of the 1920s
Working from extensive research and interviews with descendants and experts, author Anne Morrissy vividly recreates Chicago’s Taxi Wars, bringing to print for the first time this deeply compelling but nearly forgotten story. Buffeted by a supporting cast of colorful combatants and larger-than-life Jazz Age characters — including Johnny Torrio, Al Capone, Joe Kennedy, Gene Tunney, Jack Dempsey, and Chicago mayor William Hale “Big Bill” Thompson — Street Fight: The Chicago Taxi Wars of the 1920s restores to history these deadly wars that played out on the city’s streets a century ago, endangering the lives of passengers and passersby, while at the same time forming the regulatory foundation that still governs cab, limo and rideshare transportation in the 21st century.
