Mike Stanton wrote The Prince of Providence, a New York Times bestseller, while working as head of the investigative reporting team for The Providence Journal, where he spent nearly three decades and shared a Pulitzer Prize. His second book, Unbeaten: Rocky Marciano’s Fight for Perfection in a Crooked World, was named one of the best books of 2018 by the Boston Globe, Telegraph of London, and Library Journal. He is a journalism professor at the University of Connecticut and a 2019 Boston Globe Spotlight Fellow, created by the makers of the Academy Award-winning film Spotlight. He lives in Rhode Island with his wife, Susan Hodgin, and they have two children, Emma and Henry.