Brent Monahan

For decades, Bent Monahan has gotten the attention of readers and critics alike by writing what's interested him. He's spent his life being fascinated by and passionate about questioning the world around him – and arriving at unique, thoughtful, insightful and, quite often, spear-tip-pointedly amusing answers that find their expression in his many novels.

Whether offering a rational explanation to an historical haunting, as in The Bell Witch: An American Haunting – made into the movie An American Haunting, starring Donald Sutherland and Sissy Spacek – or delving into the psyches and machinations of such icons of financial and political power as J.P. Morgan in The Jekyl Island Club, Mr. Monahan does so with an unparalleled depth of research and smart, witty writing that has engaged decades of readers and garnered him considerable critical recognition from both reviewers and his peers.