William Bernhardt is the bestselling author of more than thirty books, including the blockbuster Ben Kincaid series of novels, and Nemesis: The Final Case of Eliot Ness, currently in production as a miniseries for NBC. Bernhardt founded the Red Sneaker Writing Center in 2005, hosting writing workshops and small-group seminars and becoming one of the most in-demand writing instructors in the nation. He holds a Masters Degree in English Literature and is the only writer to have received the Southern Writers Guild's Gold Medal Award, the Royden B. Davis Distinguished Author Award (University of Pennsylvania) and the H. Louise Cobb Distinguished Author Award (Oklahoma State), which is given "in recognition of an outstanding body of work that has profoundly influenced the way in which we understand ourselves and American society at large." In addition to the novels, he has written plays, a musical (book and music), humor, nonfiction books, children books, biography, poetry, and crossword puzzles. He is a member of the Author's Guild, PEN International and the American Academy of Poets. To learn more about William Bernhardt, visit his website: http: //www.williambernhardt.com. You can email him at: willbern@gmail.com