Jerome Tuccille

Jerome Tuccille is the award-winning, best-selling author of more than 25 books covering a wide range of topics. Dillerland tells the story of media mogul Barry Diller and his rule over one of the largest entertainment and information kingdoms in the world. This was followed in September 2009 by the award-winning Gallo Be Thy Name, a biography of the Gallo wine empire and its roots in Prohibition. The author's latest book is A Portrait of Hemingway as a Young Man, which portrays the young Hemingway getting started in Paris during the 1920s alongside other legendary writers such as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, Ford Madox Ford, and many others. Tuccille's other biographies include Alan Shrugged, an in-depth look at Alan Greenspan; Rupert Murdoch; Trump; and Kingdom: the Story of the Hunts of Texas. His true crime memoir, Gallery of Fools, has been optioned for a feature film, and a revised and updated edition is on the way. Tuccille has also written or co-authored several novels, among them The Werewolf of Wall Street and The Mission.

Tuccille is a vice president of T. Rowe Price Investment Services, and he has worked in the investment area as a broker and supervisory analyst since 1975. From 1971 to 1973, the author taught at the New School for Social Research in New York City, and in 1974 he was the Free Libertarian candidate for Governor of New York.