Stout, David

David Stout (b. 1942) is an accomplished reporter who has been writing mysteries and true crime since the 1980s. Born in Erie, Pennsylvania, Stout took a job at the "New York Times" in 1982. He spent nearly twenty-eight years at the newspaper, as a reporter, editor, and rewrite man covering national news and sports, and retired in 2009. Stout began writing his first novel while working at the "Times". Based on the true story of a 1940s double-murder for which fourteen-year-old George Stinney was controversially executed, "Carolina Skeletons" (1988) won Stout an Edgar Award for best first novel...