Gary M. Pomerantz
Nonfiction Author, Journalist, Lecturer
THE DEVIL’S TICKETS evokes the last echoes of the Roaring 20’s and the darkness of the Depression when a tuxedoed Russian became the Barnum of the bridge craze that fueled marital uproar across the nation, including a husband-killing and sensational trial in Boss Pendergast’s Kansas City.
WILT, 1962 restores to life the Everest of records in American sports, the night Wilt Chamberlain scored 100 points in an NBA game against the New York Knicks in March 1962 in the chocolate town of Hershey, Pa., a portrait of a game, a man and a nation on the cusp of cultural revolution.
NINE MINUTES, TWENTY SECONDS is a heart-pounding, real-life drama about how ordinary people rise above their fears and muster extraordinary courage and strength in the face of danger.
WHERE PEACHTREE MEETS SWEET AUBURN is the historic story of Atlanta and its racial conscience, a multi-generational saga spanning 150 years that chronicles the Allens and the Dobbses, two political family dynasties on opposite sides of the segregated capital of the New South.