Brian McDonald

My first book, published in 1999 by Dutton, is a family memoir of three generations of New York City police called My Father’s Gun. The book garnered critical acclaim, and in 2003, My Father’s Gun was made into a feature-length, award winning, “docu-movie” aired on the History Channel.

Since My Father’s Gun, I’ve written: Indian Summer (Rodale 2003), a biography of the first American Indian to play major league baseball (Indian Summer was finalist in the Great Lakes Booksellers Awards), the true-crime story Safe Harbor, a Murder in Nantucket (St. Martin's True Crime 2006), and: Last Call at Elaine’s, a memoir of my nights behind Elaine’s bar, published by St. Martin’s Press in April '08. This past September, St. Martin's Paperbacks published my latest project, In the Middle of the Night: The Shocking True Story of a Family Killed in Cold Blood.

Along with writing books, I frequently freelance for magazines and newspapers including the New York Times "Proof" blog, a sample of which you can see by clicking on the "Under the Literary Influence" link under my photo to the left. I also teach journalism at the City University of New York.