About the Authors

Karen & Tony Muldoon

 

             Karen and Tony Muldoon have been writing partners for nearly thirty years. Their first joint venture was a series of articles on the explosive expansion of apartment complexes in southern New Jersey for the Courier-Post of Cherry Hill. It won an award for interpretive reporting from the New Jersey Press Association.

 

             Together, and individually, they progressed through daily journalism, magazine journalism and now, with Becoming Finnigan, fiction which they hope you’ll find enjoyable and elevating.

 

            Karen, a Philadelphia native, was inspired by her grandfather, the legendary Miami Herald columnist Jack Kofoed. Thanks to her early journalism connections, her birth in Philadelphia was proclaimed to the world by no less than columnist Walter Winchell. She has a degree in communications from Glassboro State College (now Rowan University) and has been a staff reporter on the Roanoke Times, the Press of Atlantic City and the Courier-Post. In addition to her writing skills, Karen is also a painter and photographer whose work has been displayed in the Philadelphia, South Jersey and Hampton Roads areas.

 

             Tony was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut and has an English degree from Rutgers University. He started out at the late Bridgeport Telegram before moving through public relations and marketing positions in automobile racing and then on to the Bergen Record and the Courier-Post.  His magazine articles have appeared in Cruising World, Sail, Soundings, Good Old Boat , Professional Mariner, Ocean Navigator, Chesapeake Bay Magazine, Segling, Car and Driver, Auto Motor und Sport, Autoweek and Racing magazine of Lime Rock, CT.  Years before he and Karen met, Tony remembers being inspired by an article by her grandfather on the death of racing driver Frank Lockhart.