Markowitz, Jack

Veteran newsman Jack Markowitz's career spans six decades. He has filed millions of words in New York, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. Father of five daughters, he's been a copyboy, reporter, business editor and columnist, still writes a weekly commentary in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. His first book, "A Walk on the Crust of Hell," was a 1973 collection of true hero stories. This novel, copyrighted in 2000, is here revised and updated. The conflicts addressed by Jess Josephson, he says, "haven't gone away, they've gone crazy."