William A. Gordon is a full-time author and publisher who wrote The Ultimate Hollywood Tour Book, a guide to Movie Stars' Homes, Movie and TV Locations, Scandals, Murders, Suicides, and All the Famous Tourist Sites. He also wrote Shot on This Site: A Traveler's Guide to the Places and Locations Used to Film Famous Movies and Television Shows. His acclaimed study of the May 4, 1970, killings at his alma mater, Kent State University, Four Dead in Ohio: Was There a Conspiracy at Kent State?, was praised by Choice magazine "as entertaining as the best detective fiction and as analytical and well documented as the best journalism or scholarship." He is a native of Akron, Ohio and currently lives near Los Angeles.