Fractured History Tales: or Why (Almost) Everything You Thought You Knew About the Past Never Happened (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781461193982)

Author and journalist Frank Sanello has written 27 critically acclaimed books, among them The Opium Wars: The Addiction of One Empire and the Corruption of Another, which after its American release in 2002 was published in China; The Knights Templars: God's Warriors, the Devil's Bankers; and Tweakers: How Crystal Meth Is Ravaging America. As a reporter for People magazine and the New York Times Syndicate and the author of numerous celebrity biographies, Sanello has interviewed dozens of entertainment industry figures. A journalist for the past 35 years, Sanello has written articles for the Washington Post, the New York Times Syndicate, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Sun-Times, the Boston Globe, the San Francisco Chronicle, USA Today, Redbook, People, US Weekly, and Penthouse. Cosmo and other magazines have excerpted his books. Sanello was formerly a film reviewer for the Los Angeles Daily News and a business reporter for UPI. The author graduated cum laude with a bachelor's degree in English literature from the University of Chicago and earned a master's degree from UCLA's film school. He lives in West Hollywood, California, where he can be contacted at FSanello@aol.com.