Tim Brady is an award-win­ning his­to­ry author whose crit­i­cal­ly acclaimed books include Three Ordi­nary Girls, Twelve Des­per­ate Miles, A Death in San Pietro, and His Father’s Son. In addi­tion to con­tribut­ing numer­ous arti­cles, reviews, essays, and short sto­ries for a wide range of mag­a­zines, news­pa­pers, and jour­nals, he has writ­ten and helped devel­op a num­ber of tele­vi­sion doc­u­men­taries, includ­ing the Peabody Award-win­ning series, Lib­er­ty! The Amer­i­can Rev­o­lu­tion for PBS. He lives in St. Paul, Min­neso­ta, and is a grad­u­ate of the Iowa Writ­ers’ Workshop.