neil frank Profile

I grew up on the streets of Elizabeth, New Jersey and began writing in my teens. At 19, I hitchhiked to California and landed a job as a music writer for GQ Scene, an Esquire magazine for teenage boys. I also published my first novel, Fortune’s Bastard. Later, I traveled extensively in Mexico and Central and South America, writing for stateside magazines, teaching English as a second language and trying to stay out of the way of drug dealers, revolutionaries and rogue governments. A lot of my fiction is drawn from those days. In 1992 I started my own business magazine, which I sold last year so I could get back to my first love — writing novels.