John Temple

John Temple is the author of “American Pain,” the true story of two young felons who built a colossal pain clinic that sold drugs to addicts, made millions, and couldn’t be stopped. Critics call the book “propulsive,” “exhilarating,” “hysterically funny,” “tragic,” “gripping,” “thrilling,” and “anger-inducing.” The New York Post named it one of their “Favorite Books of 2015,” and Suspense Magazine named it one of the “Best True Crime Books of 2015.” The book was nominated for an Edgar Award and Foreword Reviews named it the INDIEFAB Book of the Year in True Crime.

Temple’s previous book, “The Last Lawyer,” won the 2010 Scribes Award, given by the Society for Legal Writers to honor the year’s best law-related book. “The Last Lawyer” chronicled the nation’s most experienced and innovative death row attorney as he slugged out his toughest case. Leonard Pitts, the Pulitzer-winning syndicated columnist, wrote: “’The Last Lawyer’ is a compulsively readable indictment of a fatally flawed system. It reads like first-class legal fiction but it’s farm more compelling because it is, tragically, legal fact.”

Temple also published a narrative nonfiction book in 2005 called “Deadhouse,” about the exploits of deputy coroners in Pittsburgh. The book shadows the death investigators for year as they work murder scenes in the projects and pull floaters from the Allegheny River.

Temple is a professor of journalism at the Reed College of Media at West Virginia University in Morgantown, WV. Before becoming a professor, Temple was a reporter for metro daily newspapers in Tampa and Pittsburgh. He is the father of two sons, and his wife, Hollee Schwartz Temple, is a law professor and author of the inspiring book, “Good Enough is the New Perfect: Finding Happiness and Success in Modern Motherhood.” For more about John Temple, visit his website at www.johntemplebooks.com.