Bjarne (Barney) Rostaing

Formerly an editor at the SoHo Weekly News, Rostaing won a First Place AFI Award for a sports video, taught at two universities, worked in army intelligence and appeared with Uma Thurman in Kiss Daddy Goodnight. As a sports writer, he covered the emergence of Americans in professional cycling and exposed the 1984 US Olympic blood doping scandal in Sports Illustrated. His books include Breeders (St. Marks Press), Phantom of the Paradise with Brian DePalma (Dell), Bill Walton's Book of Bicycling (Bantam) and Epstein's Pancake, a finalist in the 10th Annual National Indie Excellence Awards Political Thriller Category (2016). He lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.