As a sports writer, Bjarne (Barney) Rostaing exposed the 1984 US Olympic blood doping scandal in Sports Illustrated. He worked as an editor at the SoHo Weekly News, won an AFI First Place Award for a sports video, and worked with Uma Thurman in Kiss Daddy Goodnight. Previous books include Phantom of the Paradise (Dell), and The Bill Walton Book of Bicycling (Bantam). He lives and works in New York City.