Neiswender, Mary

Mary Neiswender is a retired newspaper investigative reporter, a two-time Pulitzer Prize nominee, and a winner of nearly every major journalistic award in California. She is most widely recognized as the only reporter with who mass killer Charles Manson would communicate before and during his trial for the murders of actress Sharon Tate and five others. Detectives also give her credit for eliciting one mass murderer's confession and sending another to San Quentin State Prison's gas chamber.

"Poor Horse on a Rich Hill", a hilarious true story about her one-eyed pet horse, is her third book a...