Marek Fuchs

Marek Fuchs, a former Wall Streeter, is a journalist, book author and academic. Fuchs worked at Shearson Lehman Brothers before writing the "County Lines" column for The New York Times for six years. He wrote "A Cold-Blooded Business," a book called "riveting" by Kirkus Reviews. "Local Heroes," a book about firefighting, is due out in fall 2012. Fuchs is also on the non-fiction writing faculty at Sarah Lawerence College. When not writing or teaching, he serves as a volunteer firefighter.