Robert Rosen is the author of the international bestseller Nowhere Man: The Final Days of John Lennon and the investigative memoir Beaver Street: A History of Modern Pornography. His work has appeared in Mother Jones, The Soho Weekly News, The Independent, Uncut, and Proceso. Born in Brooklyn, he attended Erasmus Hall High School and the City College of New York, where he studied writing with Joseph Heller and Francine du Plessix Gray. Over the course of his career, he's edited erotic magazines, written speeches for the Secretary of the Air Force, and been awarded a Hugo Boss poetry prize.