John L. Swann has worked as a broadcast journalist and in public relations and marketing. His career has included stints as a television news director and anchor and a radio anchor, reporter and talk show host whose work has been recognized by the Associated Press and the New York State Broadcasters Association. After leaving broadcasting, he served as chief of staff to the president of the State University of New York Institute of Technology where he authored From the Mills to Marcy, a history of the college. A native of the rural Midwest, he lives in Upstate New York with his wife, Patricia, whose years of encouragement were the impetus for the writing of Death, I Said, the first in a series of new Charlie Chan mysteries that continues with The Tangled String.
