Don Swaim

Don Swaim is a novelist, journalist, and broadcaster. His definitive fiction about the myth and mind of Ambrose Bierce, "The Assassination of Ambrose Bierce: A Love Story," was published by Hippocampus Press, New York. Swaim's literary thriller, "The H.L. Mencken Murder Case," praised by The New York Times, published by St. Martin's Press, was reissued as a trade paperback by the Authors Guild's Back in Print program. A winner of the Pearl S. Buck International short story award, Swaim's fiction and articles have been published in small magazines and on the web, as have his books "Bright Sun Extinguished: Ode to Norman Mailer, "Man with Two Faces," and "Steampunk Electroblaster Romance." He is a Kansan by birth, Ohioan by education, Manhattanite by inclination, and Pennsylvanian by preference. His long-running CBS Radio broadcast about books and writers, "Book Beat," continues on the Internet, and his recorded on-air interviews with hundreds of authors are archived at Ohio University. Swaim is the founder of the venerable Bucks County Writers Workshop, edits the web's definitive Ambrose Bierce Site, http://donswaim.com, and is co-founder and executive editor of the highly-regarded literary journal "Neshaminy."