THOMAS HAUSER is a New York City author. A graduate of Columbia College and Columbia Law School, he clerked for a United States district judge before beginning a five-year stint as a litigator on Wall Street in 1971. In 1977, he began to write, and since then he has penned 45 books on everything from professional boxing to Beeethoven. His first book, Missing (1982), was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, Bancroft Prize, and National Book Award, and inspired the Academy Award-winning film of the same name starring Sissy Spacek and Jack Lemmon. He is arguably best known for his biography of Muhammad Ali, Muhammad Ali- Life and Times (1992), which is considered by many to be the definitive book on the subject. He has written for the New York Times, the New Yorker, New York magazine, and many other publications. His most recent book is The Baker's Tale- Ruby Spriggs and the Legacy of Charles Dickens, published in 2015.