Pulitzer Prize Award Nominee Ace Atkins is the April 2010 Favorite Author at VJ Books
Brilliant criminal writer Ace Atkins is the April 2010 Favorite Author at VJ Books.
Before turning to writing full time, Atkins worked as a crime reporter in the newsroom of The Tampa Tribune for several years. Here he earned a Pulitzer Prize nomination and Livingston Award nomination for his seven-part series about an unsolved murder of a Tampa socialite in 1956, “Tampa Confidential,” which had the whole city buzzing for weeks.
Over the past decade, Ace Atkins has been building up an immense following for his engaging fiction based on actual historical events. An amazingly thorough researcher, Atkins writes with authority using his extensive reading of historical records to create compelling fiction.
Ace Atkins is also the author of four… (more…)