Author of "The Man in the Shadows: Fred Coe and the Golden Age of Television" (Rutgers U. Press, 1997), "Female Brando: The Legend of Kim Stanley" (Backstage Books/Watson-Guptill, 2006), "Creamy and Crunchy: An Informal History of Peanut Butter, the All-American Food" (Columbia U. Press, 2013) and "Ernest Lehman: The Sweet Smell of Success (Univ. Press of Kentucky, 2022).

Currently working on a book about Arizona Congressman Morris Udall's unsuccessful campaign for the 1976 Democratic presidential nomination.

Short story writer.

Political activist whose exploits include organizing the regrettably annual "Close Guantanamo" protest in front of the Downtown Los Angeles Federal Building.