Tony Castro:  

Tony is an author and journalist now living in Southern California. He is the author of the critically acclaimed and best-selling 'Mickey Mantle: America’s Prodigal Son' that The New York Times hailed as the best biography ever written about the baseball Hall of Fame legend. His forthcoming book 'DiMag & Mick', to be published in 2016, is based on interviews with DiMaggio and Mantle, as well as many of the women in their lives and their friends, and previously unreleased recorded conversations. Tony is also the author of the landmark civil rights history 'Chicano Power: The Emergence of Mexican America,' which Publishers Weekly called “brilliant… a valuable contribution to the understanding of our time.” Chicano Power has been re-issued in a special 40th anniversary edition. Castro was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University where he did graduate work on American Studies and comparative literature — studying under Homeric scholar and translator Robert Fitzgerald and Mexican Nobel laureate Octavio Paz. He is currently also working on a biography of Ernest Hemingway. As a journa...Expand for more