Jerome Tuccille (1937-2017) is the author of more than thirty books, including best-selling, highly acclaimed biographies and histories. His biography Gallo Be Thy Name (Phoenix Books, 2009) was selected best book of 2009 by Reason magazine, and it was named one of the best business books of 2009 by the University of California Library System. Tuccille's biography of Donald Trump, Trump (Berkeley/Penguin, 1988), was a New York Times best seller. He has also written biographies of Rupert Murdoch, Alan Greenspan, Barry Diller, and others, as well as several novels.