Sam Rose was born in Russia, grew up in Chicago, and now lives in Los Angeles where he has taught fiction writing at UCLA. Among a dozen other novels, he is the author of He Ran All The Way, hailed by the New York Times as "absorbing and exciting, a dark and driving story," and made into a film starring John Garfield; Someday Boy, acclaimed by the Chicago Tribune as "a major achievement in contemporary fiction;" the Fortune Machine, described in the Chicago Sun Times as "belonging with the best of gambling literature;" and Windy City, praised by Publishers Weekly as "big, colorful, lusty, absorbing."
