Louis L. Picone

Louis L. Picone is the best-selling & award-winning author of "Grant's Tomb: The Epic Death of Ulysses S. Grant and the Making of an American Pantheon", "The President Is Dead! The Extraordinary Stories of the Presidential Deaths, Final Days, Burials, and Beyond" and "Where the Presidents Were Born: The History & Preservation of the Presidential Birthplaces." Louis is a member of the Ulysses S. Grant Monument Association, White House Historical Association, the American Historical Association, and is also a trustee on the board of the Grover Cleveland Birthplace Memorial Association in Caldwell, NJ. He holds a Masters in History and also teaches at William Paterson University. Louis has spoken widely on the topic of the presidents and the places we commemorate them including General Grant National Memorial, James A. Garfield National Historic Site, and the international conference "U.S. Presidents and Russian Rulers" at the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow. He has been featured on C-SPAN, TIME Magazine, BBC News, NPR, Washington Post, New York Times, and the Travel Channel. For more information visit www.LouisPicone.com