Lawrence Gooley is an award-winning author who has hiked, climbed, bicycled, and canoed in the Adirondack Mountains for more than 40 years. With a lifetime love of research, writing, and history, he has authored many books and more than 200 articles on the region's past. Lawrence has won the McMaster's Prize for Historical Writing and the Adirondack Literary Award. His nonfiction title, Terror in the Adirondacks, was a regional best-seller for four years, and in 2013, he appeared on Discovery ID as narrator for one of his many true-murder stories. For six years, he has written a weekly history column for the award-winning online magazine, Adirondack Almanack. Lawrence and Bloated Toe Publishing have been featured in the magazine Publishers Weekly, and his work was cited in Smithsonian Air & Space magazine.