Dagger John

John Loughery

John Loughery is the author of four previous books: Alias S. S. Van Dine; John Sloan: Painter and Rebel; The Other Side of Silence: Men’s Lives and Gay Identities, a Twentieth Century History; and Dagger John: Archbishop John Hughes and the Making of Irish America, two of which were New York Times Notable Books. His biography of John Sloan was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Biography. He lives in New York.