Jay Robert Nash is an American author of more than 70 books on myriad aspects of true crime. Among Nash's crime anthologies are Encyclopedia of Western Lawmen and Outlaws, Look For the Woman, Bloodletters and Badmen, and The Great Pictorial History of World Crime. He has also compiled his exhaustive research of criminal behaviour into a CD-ROM entitled Jay Robert Nash's True Crime Database. Jay Robert Nash currently lives in Wilmette, Illinois and describes himself as an "entrepreneurial businessman". He is the recipient of a Special Edgar Allan Poe Award, in 1991, for his six-volume Encyclopedia of World Crime. Nash has won Best Reference citations from the American Library Association for four of his books, including Darkest Hours. However, he has said that his books are "seeded with information to detect any unauthorized use or duplication"; the precise nature of these copyright traps may include incorrect information in otherwise factual entries, or wholly fictitious entries. Sally G. 

November 26th, 1937 in (Age 86)