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Springs Toledo is a freelance writer of literary nonfiction and the author of Smokestack Lightning, Murderers' Row, In the Cheap Seats, and The Gods of War. He is currently researching and writing a full-length book about the Boston underworld (working title: The Wars of Joe Mac).
Springs Toledo is the real deal.
~ T.J. English
SPRINGS TOLEDO
has been featured on NPR’s Here & Now, the Travel Channel, and in the award-winning documentary I Am Duran (2019). His writing has been recognized 39 times by the BWAA and honored in The Best American Essays 2019 and 2020. A native of Boston, Massachusetts, his subjects of choice tend toward the familiar: outsiders, underdogs, rogues, rebels, and the red-light district of sports.
NOTABLE FEATURES
ON THE BOSTON WATERFRONT
City Journal
A real-life version of Marlon Brando's famous character came to a more tragic end.
THE GOOD OLD WHITE MAN
360 Review
At Christmastime 1858, an American outlaw and eleven black men, women, and children went barreling out of antebellum Missouri. This is a “black lives matter” story like no other.
