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Author and journalist Frank Sanello has written 26 nonfiction books, among them The Opium Wars: The Addiction of One Empire and the Corruption of Another (Sourcebooks, 2002), which after its American release was published in China, which normally despises Westerners’ often biased accounts of Chinese history; The Knights Templars: God’s Warriors, the Devil’s Bankers (Taylor, 2003); and Tweakers: How Crystal Meth Is Ravaging Gay America (Alyson, 2005). Sanello has collaborated on some of his books with nationally known academics in their areas of expertise. He cowrote Saving America: Solutions For a Nation in Crisis, with Adel N. Shenouda, M.D., professor emeritus of nephrology at the University of Tennessee. The work offers Professor Shenouda’s fool-proof plan for affordable, universal health insurance. Sanello coauthored The Addict Next Door: The Epidemic of Prescription Painkiller Abuse and Other Contemporary Plagues with USC Professor Jayson A. Hymes, M.D. The author has also written numerous biographies, among them Steven Spielberg: The Man, the Movies, the Mythology (Taylor 1996); Jimmy Stewart: A Wonderful Life (Kensington, 1997); and Halle Berry: A Stormy Life (Virgin Books, 2003). He combined his love of history and films in his nonfiction compilation Reel v. Real: How Hollywood Turns Fact Into Fiction (Taylor, 2003), whose subtitle is more marketable but less accurate than the author’s preferred alternative: Inaccuracies in Historical Films. The author recently finished a nonfiction work, Victims and Victimizers: Gays and Lesbians in the Third Reich, and another nonfiction effort, Why Marie Antoinette Never Said “Let Them Eat Cake” or Why (Almost) Everything You Thought You Knew About the Past Never Happened, in which Sanello debunks dozens of myths almost universally accepted as historical “fact.” A polymath with encyclopedic interests, Sanello is currently researching Faith and Finance in the Renaissance: The Rise and Ruin of the Fugger Empire,” a centuries-spanning chronicle about the Fugger family, German financiers who were as influential in commerce and the arts as their better-known Italian contemporaries, the Medici. A journalist for the past 35 years, Sanello has written articles for the Washington Post, the New York Times Syndicate, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Sun-Times, the Boston Globe, the San Francisco Chronicle, USA Today, Redbook, People, US Weekly, and Penthouse. Cosmo and other periodicals have excerpted his books. Sanello was formerly a film reviewer for the Los Angeles Daily News and a business reporter for UPI. The author graduated cum laude with a bachelor’s degree in English literature from the University of Chicago and earned a master’s degree from UCLA’s film school. He also holds a purple belt in Tae Kwon Do and has volunteered as a kickboxing instructor at AIDS Project Los Angeles where he taught self-defense classes for HIV/AIDS patients who had been AIDS- or fag-bashed. Amazon.com his books. Sanello’s blog, PoliticallyImpolite, which not only deals with politics, but also examines medical and social issues such as substance abuse, homophobia, pedophilia, and cultural anthropology, can be accessed at www.politicallyimpolite.com. The writer lives in West Hollywood, California, and can be contacted at FSanello@AOL.com.