Colin Beavan

Colin Beavan is the author of Operation Jedburgh:
D-Day and America’s First Shadow War (Viking, 2006) and
Fingerprints: The Origins of Crime Detection and the Murder Case that
Launched Forensic Science (Hyperion, 2001). His work has appeared in
The Atlantic Monthly, Esquire, Mens’ Journal, Mens’
Health, Glamour, Cosmopolitan, and many other national
magazines. His books have been translated into Italian, German, French,
Spanish, Portuguese, Korean, Japanese, and Chinese. Beavan has appeared on
NPR’s All Things Considered, The Kojo Nnamdi Show, Talk
of the Nation, and many other nationally syndicated NPR and commercial
radio shows. He lives in New York City with his wife Michelle
Conlin, the accomplished BusinessWeek writer and editor, and their
daughter, Isabella.