About the Authors
Patricia L. Bryan
Patricia L. Bryan is the Henry P. Brandis Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, where she has taught classes in Federal Income Tax and a seminar in Law and Literature. She has degrees from Carleton College (B.A.), the University of Iowa (J.D.), and New York University (Masters in Tax). She has been a visiting professor at Stanford Law School and the University of Iowa College of Law.
Bryan is the co-author of Midnight Assassin: A Murder in America’s Heartland and the co-editor of Her America, a collection of stories by Susan Glaspell. Bryan has written and spoken extensively about Glaspell’s work. She has investigated several criminal cases from the 19th century and has published articles about them in the Stanford Law Review and the Annals of Iowa. Bryan has also researched and written about the public financing for sports stadiums.
Thomas Wolf
Thomas Wolf was born, raised, and educated in the Midwest. After graduation from Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois, and a two-year stint as a VISTA volunteer on Long Island, he earned an MFA in Fiction Writing from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. He is a two-time winner of the Doris Betts Fiction Prize and the co-author of Midnight Assassin: A Murder in America’s Heartland. His short story "Boundaries" received Special Mention in the 2014 Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses.
Wolf is a frequent participant at scholarly baseball conferences and has published five essays in The Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture. He is the author of The Called Shot: Babe Ruth, the Chicago Cubs, and the Unforgettable Major League Baseball Season of 1932, which was named “best baseball book of 2020” by Sports Collectors Digest.
Bryan and Wolf live in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. They have three grown sons and a dog named Cody.