Abby Mendelson is a veteran Pittsburgh writer and reporter. A novelist and short-story writer, he is also the author of numerous Pittsburgh-related books, including Arena: Remembering the Igloo; Pittsburgh: A Place in Time; Pittsburgh Prays: Thirty-Six Houses of Worship, Pittsburgh Born, Pittsburgh Bred: The Pittsburgh Steelers Official History, and The Pittsburgh Steelers Yesterday and Today. As a journalist, he has written on countless subjects in a wide variety of publications, local and national, print as well as electronic.