Sidney Kirkpatrick is an award-winning filmmaker and international bestselling author. His critically acclaimed non-fiction books include A Cast of Killers, Turning the Tide, Lords of Sipan, Edgar Cayce: An American Prophet, and The Revenge of Thomas Eakins. His documentary film, My Father the President, about Theodore Roosevelt as seen through the eyes of his daughter, Ethel Roosevelt Derby, was a winner at the American Film Festival. HBO, the History Channel, the Discovery Channel, and A&E have all featured his work. Biographical profiles of Kirkpatrick have appeared in The New York Times, Time, The New Yorker, and Playboy. He is a graduate of Hampshire College and New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. He lives in Stony Brook, New York.
