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Larry Tye, Author Of "SUPERMAN"

Seventy-five years after he was born, Superman remains America's most enduring hero. In this first full-fledged history of the Man of Steel, New York Times bestselling author of "Satchel," Larry Tye shows how Superman has tapped into the American psyche in a way that reveals something essential not just about him but about us. Larry Tye was an award-winning journalist The Boston Globe and a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. A lifelong Superman fan, Tye now runs a Boston-based training program for medical journalists. He lives in Lexington, Massachusetts, and is currently writing a biography of Robert F. Kennedy.

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