About The Santa Claus Man: The Rise and Fall of a Jazz Age Con Man and the Invention of Christmas in New York Hardcover: 320 pages Publisher: Lyons Press (October 1, 2015) Miracle on 34th Street meets The Wolf of Wall Street in this true crime adventure, set in New York City in the Roaring Twenties. Before the charismatic John Duval Gluck, Jr. came […]
Claire Prentice, author of The Lost Tribe of Coney Island, on tour October 2014
About The Lost Tribe of Coney Island Hardcover: 432 pages Publisher: New Harvest (October 14, 2014) Readers of Erik Larson will love this tale of sex, greed, and the American dream: A huckster imports a tribe of Filipinos to Coney Island’s Luna Park, and two cultures collide. The Lost Tribe of Coney Island unearths the forgotten story of the […]