Dary Matera

About the Author

Dary Matera is the author of 14 books, including the bestseller Are You Lonesome Tonight and Sterling’s Charles Manson: Conversations with a Killer, co-authored with Edward George. He’s worked closely with the FBI on such previous books as Quitting the Mob, The FBI’s Ten Most Wanted, and John Dillinger. His books have been featured on 20/20, 60 Minutes, 48 Hours, Primetime Live, Nightline, Good Morning America, Inside Edition, and CBS This Morning, among others. They have been reviewed and featured in The New York Times, The  Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Newsweek, Time, People, Life, and many additional publications. Matera has appeared in more than a dozen TV documentaries featuring his book subjects, and on the TV series America: Fact or Fiction and William Shatner’s The UnXplained.