About the Author
Greg Mandel is the brains behind The Oregonian's column, "The Edge." He grew up a Roman Catholic in Sitka, Alaska, where he was an All-Conference Altar Boy. He has lived in San Francisco, Massachusetts, New York, and Flagstaff, Arizona; he has traveled to Vatican City several times, where he saw The Pope, and to Paris and London, where he did not see the Queen in her undies. He is also the author of The Seventh Elvis, a Dime Novel, and has recently completed a comic mystery about a gentleman adventurer in New York City. He lives in Portland, Oregon, with his dog, Cosmo.
