M. William Phelps - Author & Investigative Journalist

M. William Phelps, Author & Journalist, at the Hale Homestead in Coventry, CT

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Television personality, lecturer, crime pundit, "young historian" and noted journalist M. William Phelps has been authoring nonfiction books since 1999. Phelps has appeared on Court TV, The Discovery Channel, Oxygen, Fox News Channel, CN8, ABC’s “Good Morning America,” The Learning Channel, Biography Channel, History Channel, Montel Williams, Geraldo At Large, and many others, along with USA Radio Network, Catholic Radio on Sirius, ABC News Radio and Radio America.

His freelance writing on a wide variety of subjects - ranging from racism and child abuse to politics and sports - has appeared in the Providence Journal, Hartford Courant, the New London Day. He’s published several best-selling history “Shorts” for Amazon.com, and been profiled in such noted publications as Writer's Digest, NY Daily News, Newsday, Albany Times-Union, Hartford Courant, Advance for Nurses magazine, Forensic Nursing, The Globe magazine and NY Post, and consulted for the Showtime cable television series “Dexter.”

With nearly 600,000 copies of his books in print, Phelps’s titles include: Perfect Poison, Lethal Guardian, Every Move You Make, Sleep In Heavenly Peace, Murder in the Heartland, Because You Loved Me, If Looks Could Kill (spring 2008). Coming in the summer of 2008, I’ll Be Watching You, a book about serial killer Edwin “Ned” Snelgrove. Phelps biography of patriot Nathan Hale will be out in the fall of 2008. Beyond that Phelps is also writing a book about the murder of Susan Fassett, a Pleasant Valley, NY, woman who was gunned down after attending choir practice, and also collecting research for his next two history books, a biography of Silas Deane, America’s first foreign ambassador; and a biography of Revolutionary War hero Col. Thomas Knowlton, who has been called the man who started the Green Berets.

In August 2008, Phelps will also publish Failures of the Presidents: Our Leaders' Worst Decisions from the Dred Scott Case to Watergate to the Bay of Pigs to Iraq (Fairwinds Press), which he is co-writing with acclaimed author Thomas Craughwell.

Phelps lives in a small Connecticut farming community with his wife, children and Labrador.

Visit CrimeRant.com and read the latest blog from Phelps
and his blogging partner Gregg Olsen.

All of Phelps books are now available on Brilliance Audio!
Please look wherever books are sold.

Phelps's latest project is a narrative nonfiction account of Nathan Hale’s life titled, NATHAN HALE: The Life and Death of America's First Spy, a book that will chronicle a period in Hale’s life between 1773 and 1776, as told through a variety of primary sources, focusing on the close relationship Hale had with his brother, Enoch, all set against two major battles of the American Revolution, to be published by Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press in late 2008.

Warner Bros. has acquired the movie rights to Phelps' upcoming Nathan Hale biography. Barry Josephson's Josephson Entertainment will produce the film version of the book. "We want to do it as an exciting spy story," Josephson Entertainment's VP Danica Radovanov says.

PRAISE FOR M. WILLIAM PHELPS

"[Murder in the Heartland is] a compassionate, riveting true
crime masterpiece ..." -Anne Bremner

"The rising star of the genre ... " - Douglas Clegg

"Phelps is a first-rate investigator." - Dr. Michael Baden

"Phelps is writing at a journalistic level rare today ... " - Lowell Cauffiel

"[Every Move You Make is] an amazing story by
M. William Phelps!" - Catherine Crier

M. William Phelps is managed by Peter Miller,
PMA Literary & Film Management, Inc.
45 West 21st Street, Fourth Floor, New York, NY 10010
Phone: 212-929-1222 - Fax: 212-206-0238
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Reach M. William Phelps at:
PO BOX 3215, Vernon, CT 06066
Phone: 860-870-7247
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Both photos of Phelps at Hale Homestead in Coventry, CT,
courtesy of Claudia Olsen, 2007