A. Parker Burroughs spent forty-five years as a newspaper writer and editor. He retired as executive editor of the Observer-Reporter in Washington, Pennsylvania, and has worked as a newspaper consultant in Russia and Ukraine. He is the author of Enter, with Torches: Recollections of a Grumpy Old Editor and Washington County Murder & Mayhem: Historic Crimes of Southwestern Pennsylvania. He and his wife, artist Alice McClenathan Burroughs, live in Washington.
