Arthur J. Magi­da has been nom­i­nat­ed for a Pulitzer and won mul­ti­ple awards. His last two books — Code Name Madeleine (“absolute­ly grip­ping,” ​“tight­ly plot­ted”) and The Nazi Séance (“an aston­ish­ing sto­ry, bril­liant­ly told,” ​“haunt­ing, vivid”) — are optioned for films. He’s been a con­tribut­ing cor­re­spon­dent to PBS’s Reli­gion & Ethics Newsweek­ly, senior edi­tor of The Bal­ti­more Jew­ish Times, and edi­to­r­i­al direc­tor for Jew­ish Lights Pub­lish­ing. He lives in Baltimore.