Joe Woodward is a four-time finalist and two-time winner of a Los Angeles Press Club Award. His nonfiction, on some of the most reclusive, eccentric, yet talented writers of our time, including David Foster Wallace, Bret Easton Ellis, Tobias Wolff, and Hunter S. Thompson, has appeared in a variety of publications, including the San Francisco Chronicle, the Los Angeles Times, The Huffington Post, and Poets & Writers Magazine. He currently lives with his family in Los Angeles.

ALIVE INSIDE THE WRECK A Biography of Nathanael West “Wildly funny, desperately sad, brutal and kind, furious and patient, there was no other like Nathanael West.” —Dorothy Parker More