Todd DePastino is the author of BILL MAULDIN: A LIFE UP FRONT (W.W. Norton), which won the 2009 Anne M. Sperber Prize for the best biography of a major media figure and was a 2009 Eisner Award nominee. It has also been named one of the best books of 2008 by the Boston Globe, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Todd currently heads Fantagraphics Books’ on-going project to publish Mauldin’s complete works. The edited volumes so far include the acclaimed WILLIE & JOE: THE WWII YEARS (2008) and WILLIE & JOE: BACK HOME (2010).
Todd is collaborating with Wind and Stars Production Group to write and co-produce a documentary film on Bill Mauldin to be aired on public television in 2011. His previous books include CITIZEN HOBO: HOW A CENTURY OF HOMELESSNESS SHAPED AMERICA (University of Chicago Press, 2003), which won a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, and THE ROAD BY JACK LONDON (Rutgers University Press, 2006). He has a Ph.D. in American History from Yale University and teaches at Waynesburg University where in 2008 he won the Lucas-Hathaway Award for Teaching Excellence. He lives in Pittsburgh with his wife and two daughters.
