Participant(s) Bio
A Notable Book author, EMMY nominated TV reporter and screenwriter, Alex Abella was born in Cuba and grew up in New York City. Abella worked as a reporter for The San Francisco Chronicle then switched to electronic media and joined KTVU-TV, Channel 2 News. There he became producer, writer and reporter and was nominated for an EMMY for Best Breaking News Story. Alex moved to Los Angeles in the late 1980s to pursue a writing career. While in Los Angeles he worked as assistant to a private investigator and as a Los Angeles Superior Court Interpreter. His experiences in the world of law and law enforcement inspired him to write a legal thriller, The Killing of the Saints, featuring a Cuban-American hero, Charlie Morell, who is a lawyer and private investigator. Alex's second novel, The Great American, recounts the true adventures of William Morgan, a U.S. Marine who fought in the mountains of Cuba with Fidel Castro. Abella's Shadow Enemies, is a non-fiction account of the plot by Adolf Hitler to unleash a wave of terror in the United States by sending Nazi agents to bomb stores, train stations and factories.
Mike Shuster is a diplomatic correspondent and roving foreign correspondent for NPR. He is based in NPR's Los Angeles bureau. When he is not traveling outside the U.S., he covers issues of nuclear non-proliferation and weapons of mass destruction, terrorism, and the Pacific Rim. In the past two years, he has contributed many reports to NPR's extensive coverage of the Middle East, traveling four times to Israel since September 2000. He has also reported from Afghanistan, Iran, and Iraq.
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