About the Author — John Colapinto

Awardâ€"winning and New York Timesâ€"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