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Frederic A. Rosen (March 28, 1953 – December 2, 2020) was an American former
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for the Arts and Leisure Section of ''
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'' and a
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author in the United States. He had also been a frequent commentator in true crime documentaries on
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.


Biography

Rosen was born in
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,
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in 1953 and eventually settled in
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. He died on December 2, 2020, after a debilitating stroke about a month earlier.


Writing

In his new book Bat Masterson, The First Dreamer, - Oct.2019 RJ Parker Publishing, Rosen shows through his original research that the legendary American Bat Masterson, an Old West lawman and NYC newspaperman was also an illegal alien from Canada, which he covered up his whole life. In 2016, his book ''Murdering the President: Alexander Graham Bell and the Race to Save James Garfield'' was released by
Potomac Books The University of Nebraska Press (UNP) was founded in 1941 and is an academic publisher of scholarly and general-interest books. The press is under the auspices of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, the main campus of the University of Ne ...
. Rosen's other published works include ''Lobster Boy'' about the murder of
Grady Stiles Grady Franklin Stiles Jr. (June 26, 1937 – November 29, 1992) was an American freak show performer and murderer. His deformity was the genetic condition ectrodactyly, in which the fingers and toes are fused together to form claw-like extremitie ...
. Rosen gave evidence in the trial against the killer.Chronogram - The Art of Business - Book Shelf > Where the Bodies are Buried
/ref> His two books for
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''There But For the Grace: Survivors of the 20th Century's Infamous Serial Killers'' and ''When Satan Wore a Cross,'' were best-sellers at the Doubleday Book Club, Literary Guild, Mystery Guild, and Book-of-the-Month Club. He has written other works of historical non-fiction including ''Cremation in America'', ''Contract Warriors'' and ''Gold!''.


Awards

He won the 2005 Library Journal Best Reference Source Award for ''The Historical Atlas of American Crime''.


References


External links


Official siteFred Rosen at HarperCollinsUniversity of Nebraska Press's Review of ''Murdering the President''
{{DEFAULTSORT:Rosen, Fred American crime writers 1953 births 2020 deaths Writers from Brooklyn The New York Times columnists 21st-century American non-fiction writers American newspaper journalists People with mood disorders