James Dempsey is a novelist, biographer and an award-winning journalist. A former instructor at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, he is the author of The Tortured Life of Scofie...view moreJames Dempsey is a novelist, biographer and an award-winning journalist. A former instructor at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, he is the author of The Tortured Life of Scofield Thayer, The Court Poetry of Chaucer, Zakary's Zombies, and Murphy's American Dream. He lives in Massachusetts with his wife, Gail.view less