About the Author

Award–winning and New York Times–bestselling writer John Colapinto's About the Author is "a thriller worthy of Hitchcock at his best" (Stephen King).

Despite a severe case of writer's block, Cal Cunningham dreams of writing a novel that will permit him to escape from his life as a penniless stockboy in dirty and dangerous upper Manhattan bookstore.


However, when his roommate is suddenly killed in a bicycle accident, Cal is suddenly the author of a page-turning autobiography. Propelled to the top of the bestseller lists with million-dollar movie deals, Cal finds that he has realized his most outlandish fantasies of literary success.


That is, until he discovers that someone knows his secret . . .


A searingly funny psychological thriller, About the Author delves into the excesses of the publishing world and shows that sometimes the difference between reality and imagination can be fatal.

"Splendid suspense." —Stephen King
"Clever and entertaining." —Elle
"Shamelessly entertaining." —USA Today
"A rare and successful mix of spoof and suspense." —Entertainment Weekly
"A well-paced and often darkly humorous thriller that scores direct hits on the publishing industry." —New York Times Book Review
"John Colapinto's clever and delightfully nasty book . . . is the literary equivalent of M. C. Escher's hands drawing each other." —Baltimore Sun
"John Colapinto's comic literary thriller is a page-turning pleasure." —San Francisco Chronicle