Charlie Rethwisch

GARY BRAVER
(Gary Goshgarian)

Gary Braver is the bestselling author of six critically acclaimed mysteries and thrillers—the first three under his own name, Gary Goshgarian, his last three and future works under the pen name, Gary Braver.
The Braver books include: Elixir, Gray Matter, and Flashback, which is the only thriller to have won a prestigious Massachusetts Book Award (2006) and which in a starred review Publishers Weekly called “an exceptional medical thriller.” For over two years, Flashback has been on the Doubleday Book Club mystery bestsellers list. His novels have been translated into five languages, and three have been optioned for movies, including Elixir by director Ridley Scott. (Alas, no movie.) His last three books are among the top 10 highest-rated thrillers on Amazon.com.
Gary Braver’s seventh novel, Skin Deep, a psychological police procedural centered on cosmetic surgery, will be published on July 22, 2008 by Forge Books. It has already sold to foreign publishers.

Under his own name, Gary Goshgarian is an award-winning professor of English at Northeastern University where he teaches courses in Modern Bestsellers, Detective Fiction, Science Fiction, Horror Fiction, and Fiction Writing. He has taught fiction-writing workshops through out the United States and Europe for over twenty years and is a featured instructor at the Maui Writers Conference. He is the author of five popular college writing textbooks, now in 27 editions.
Gary holds a BS in physics from the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, a Masters in English from the University of Connecticut, and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Wisconsin (Madison). He has written book reviews and articles on travel and scuba-diving in The New York Times, the Boston Globe, the Christian Science Monitor and elsewhere.
He is the father of two grown sons, Nathan and David. He lives with his family in Arlington, MA. His website is www.garybraver.com.