William Elliott Hazelgrove has a master's in history and is the best-selling author of ten novels and seven narrative nonfiction books, including Madame President: The Secret Presidency of Edith Wilson, Forging a President: How the West Created Teddy Roosevelt (Regnery Publishing), and Al Capone and the 1933 World's Fair (Rowman & Littlefield). He lives in Chicago, Illinois.