Charles Rappleye

Charles Rappleye is a writer and editor who has lived in Los Angeles since 1984. In 1986 he left off a career in journalism to pursue longer-form projects, a step that led to a writing degree from USC and his first book. "All-American Mafioso: The Johnny Rosselli Story" was published to strong reviews in 1991. After a stretch of freelance journalism Rappleye in 1994 returned to gainful employment with a staff job at the LA Weekly. He left nine years later and in 2006 published his second book, a story from the realm of history. "Sons of Providence: The Brown Brothers, the Slave Trade, and the American Revolution" was recognized as the year's best book on the founding era by the American Revolution Round Table Book Prize and the George Washington Book Prize. Rappleye returned to the Revolution for his next project, the biography of Robert Morris published in November by Simon & Schuster.