GARY M. POMERANTZ has explored American culture and the human condition for forty-five years as a journalist and author of six nonfiction books. He won the Ernie Pyle Award for human interest writing and the Society of Professional Journalists' Sigma Delta Chi award for feature writing for his 1998 series in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution about ASA flight 529. His first book, Where Peachtree Meets Sweet Auburn, was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and 2018's The Last Pass was a New York Times national bestseller. Pomerantz has served as a lecturer in Stanford University's Graduate Program in Journalism for the past nineteen years. He lives with his wife in San Francisco.