Vic Lodato

Vic Lodato grew up in New Jersey on a steady diet of The Sopranos and the Boss — close enough to the world he now writes about to take it personally. At eighteen he left for the United States Naval Academy, picked up a few creative-writing classes along the way, and went on to serve six years as a Supply Corps officer aboard the USS New Orleans, with deployments across the Pacific and the Middle East.

Back in civilian life, he turned to the work he'd always wanted to do. Apaches of New York is his crime saga of the Morellos — the Sicilian immigrant family at the root of the American Mafia — drawn from the largely forgotten true history of 1910s New York. A graduate of the Writers Guild Foundation Veterans Program, he also writes for the screen.

He once battled a local rapper in West Virginia on Rough N' Rowdy to boost book sales.

He lives in Texas with his family.