Author Daniel Stashower was interviewed for BookCast by Fairfax County Public Library Director Sam Clay. BookCast is sponsored by the Fairfax Library Foundation.

• Daniel Stashower, a two-time Edgar award winner, is the author of the Conan Doyle biography Teller of Tales and a co-editor of the recent volume Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters. His most recent book is The Beautiful Cigar Girl, which examinesthe life of Edgar Allan Poe and the events that inspired one of his most famous tales. Stashower has also written many mystery novels and short stories.
  
  Stashower is a recipient of The Raymond Chandler Fulbright Fellowship in Detective and Crime Fiction Writing, and spent a year as a Visiting Fellow at Wadham College, Oxford.



• A freelance journalist since 1986, Stashower’s articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Smithsonian Magazine, National Geographic Traveller and Connoisseur.



• Author's Web site



• The Beautiful Cigar Girl review in NYT.



• Teller of Tales review on Smithsonian.com