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Steve Bassett was born, raised and educated in New Jersey, and, although far removed during a career as a multiple award-winning journalist, he has always been proud of the sobriquet Jersey Guy. As a natural iconoclast, he joined the dwindling number of itinerant newsmen roaming the countryside in search of, well just about everything. He is an award-winning journalist and writer and has written for several publications including The Long Branch Daily in New Jersey, the Pekin Daily Times, and the Pulitzer Prize winning Salt Lake Tribune. He’s worked for the Associated Press, where his exposés gained national recognition, and CBS television news in Los Angeles, earning three Emmy Awards for his investigative documentaries. His book, “Golden Ghetto: How the Americans and French Fell In and Out of Love During the Cold War,” was published in 2013. “Father Divine’s Bikes,” is his first work of fiction, a historical, noir crime novel set in 1945 Newark. Bassett currently resides in Placitas, New Mexico with his wife Darlene Chandler Bassett.