Tony Castro

TONY CASTRO is the bestselling author of the landmark 1974 civil rights history "Chicano Power," the 2016 literary biography "Looking for Hemingway," and the Mickey Mantle biographical quadrilogy. His newest book is the Hollywood political suspense thriller "The Book of Marilyn." A graduate of Baylor and a Nieman Fellow at Harvard, he is currently working on a biography of Napoleon Bonaparte and a book about faith, fame, and nostalgia in America. Formerly a national correspondent for the Washington Post, Tony was a columnist and political writer for the Los Angeles Herald Examiner and a senior writer at Sports Illustrated. Tony and his wife Renee LaSalle live in Los Angeles.