Joseph Justin Gustainis is an American college professor and fiction writer. When younger, he wrote and published a great deal of academic writing, including the book American Rhetoric and the Vietnam War. Beginning in the mid-1990s, while retaining his academic job, he began to write fiction. He has published, so far, two novels ? The Hades Project and Black Magic Woman ? and a number of short stories. A third novel, a sequel to Black Magic Woman entitled Evil Ways, is in progress and scheduled for publication in 2009. In 2013, Gustainis will publish the third book in the Occult Crimes Unit Investigations series, entitled Known Devil. 

February 9th, 1951 in Pennsylvania (Age 73)