For decades, Bent Monahan has gotten the attention of readers and critics alike by writing what’s interested him. He’s spent his life being fascinated by and passionate about questioning the world around him – and arriving at unique, thoughtful, insightful and, quite often, spear-tip-pointedly amusing answers that find their expression in his many novels. Whether offering a rational explanation to an historical haunting, as in The Bell Witch: An American Haunting – made into the movie An American Haunting, starring Donald Sutherland and Sissy Spacek – or delving into the psyches and machinations of such icons of financial and political power as J.P. Morgan in The Jekyl Island Club, Mr. Monahan does so with an unparalleled depth of research and smart, witty writing that has engaged decades of readers and garnered him considerable critical recognition from both reviewers and his peers. Mr. Monahan was a World War II occupation baby, born in Fukuoka, Japan, in 1948. He received his Bachelor of Arts from Rutgers University in music, with a minor in German, and his Doctor of Musical Arts from Indiana University, Bloomington. He has performed and stage directed professionally, and taught music and writing. Mr. Monahan has written seventeen published novels, two of which have been made into motion pictures. He lives in Coatesville, Pennsylvania, with his wife, Bonnie.