During a ten-year period, the author worked as a reporter for a weekly newspaper. During that time, he interviewed the famous, the infamous, and just ordinary people who were doing extraordinary things with their lives. The conversation subjects range from A.M. Rosenthal, the former editor of the New York Times, to Tom Evangelista, bounty hunter; from Peter Jennings, ABC news anchor, to Joe Lipski, an armless computer operator. Playwright Thornton Wilder once said, In our town, we like to know the facts about everybody. This book proves that adage to be true.