E. A. Maruggi, Ph.D., is a diverse writer who has written a bi-monthly column for an Italian American newspaper for fifteen years and has authored thirteen books: seven college level textbooks and six about Italians and Italian Americans produced by Winston Publishing, a company he founded in 1996. Collecting sea glass for more than thirty-five years has peaked his interest in the origin and use of sea glass chards, hence, The Sea Glass Affair, his first mystery novel. He resides on a waterfront community in Hilton, New York, with his wife Carolyn, a quilt genealogist, and two cats, Mitzi and Molly.