I am a public affairs columnist for the Las Vegas Review-Journal, author of "Sun, Sin & Suburbia: An Essential History of Modern Las Vegas" and "Howard Hughes: Power, Paranoia & Palace Intrigue," and editor of CityLife Books, an imprint of Stephens Press.
My more than 20 years of professional work as a newspaper reporter, editor, columnist and author have been influenced by several mentors in the field, as well as some of the great writers of the 20th century, including Ernest Hemingway, George Orwell, Nelson Algren, John Steinbeck, A.J. Liebling and Tom Wolfe.
