About the Author

WARREN LESLIE grew up in New York City, moving to Dallas in 1947 after two years at Yale and two in the Marine Corps. He was a reporter for the "Dallas Morning News" and later became an executive of Neiman Marcus. After seventeen years in Dallas, he moved back to Manhattan. Since then he has been an executive with Revlon in New York City and with Max Factor in Los Angeles. Leslie is the author of four novels. He and his wife, Carol, currently reside in New York City.