Sam Rose was born in Russia, grew up in Chicago, and now lives in Los Angeles where he has taught fiction writing at UCLA. Among a dozen other novels, he is the author of He Ran All The Way, hailed...view moreSam Rose was born in Russia, grew up in Chicago, and now lives in Los Angeles where he has taught fiction writing at UCLA. Among a dozen other novels, he is the author of He Ran All The Way, hailed by the New York Times as “absorbing and exciting, a dark and driving story,” and made into a film starring John Garfield; Someday Boy, acclaimed by the Chicago Tribune as “a major achievement in contemporary fiction;” the Fortune Machine, described in the Chicago Sun Times as “belonging with the best of gambling literature;” and Windy City, praised by Publishers Weekly as “big, colorful, lusty, absorbing.”
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