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Welcome to Rogue Island

Bruce DeSilva worked as a journalist for 40 years before retiring to write crime novels full time. His first novel, Rogue Island, won the Mystery Writers of America's Edgar Award and the Mystery Readers International's Macavity Award for best first novel. His second, Cliff Walk, will be published in the spring of 2012, At the Associated Press, he served as the writing coach, responsible for training the wire service's reporters and editors worldwide. Previously he directed an elite AP department devoted to investigative reporting and other special projects. Earlier in his career, he worked as an investigative reporter and an editor at The Hartford Courant and The Providence Journal. Stories edited by DeSilva have won virtually every major journalism prize including the Polk (twice), the Livingston (twice) the ASNE and the Batten Medal. He also edited two Pulitzer finialists and helped edit a Pulitzer winner. He has worked as a consultant on writing and editing at more than 50 newspapers including The New York Times and The Dallas Morning News, and has been a sought-after speaker at professional conferences including the National Writers Workshops, the Nieman Foundation's Narrative Writing Conference, Bouchercon and Thrillerfest. He is an adjunct professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. His reviews of crime novels have appeared in The New York Times book review section and continue to be published occasionally by The Associated Press. He and his wife Patricia Smith, an award-winning poet, live in Howell, NJ, with their granddaughter Mikaila, a huge mutt, and an enormous Bernese Mountain Dog named Brady.