Brandon M. Stickney (born in 1967 in Lockport, New York) is an American journalist, author, and documentarian. He was a newspaper reporter at the Lockport Union-Sun & Journal from 1990 to 1995. He is the author of All-American Monster: The Unauthorized Biography of Timothy McVeigh (about Timothy McVeigh)[1][2] and The Amazing Seven Sutherland Sisters: A Biography of America's First Celebrity Models (about the Seven Sutherland Sisters).[3][4] Released in late 2020, Stickney's memoir is The Five People You'll Meet in Prison.[5]

Since his release from prison[6] in 2018, Stickney has volunteered in prison reform advocacy in Florida and in New York.

He attended Daemen College, Niagara County Community College, and graduated with a B.A. in English literature from the State University of New York at Buffalo (UB). UB's English program was noted for professors Leslie Fiedler and Robert Creeley, among others.

After five years at the Union-Sun & Journal, Stickney helped ABC News, A&E Biography, and Court TV create documentaries on the Oklahoma City bombing. He also attended Timothy McVeigh's trial in Denver. He later managed marketing and promotions at Prometheus Books. RSA, a subsidiary of Mercedes-Benz Financial, hired him as marketing manager, where he led the communications department. He remained at RSA when it was acquired by Fiserv, a banking services partner.

He continued freelance writing for various publications, including Publishers Weekly and The Buffalo News. After working as a copywriter for Stand Advertising, the Partnership, and J. Fitzgerald Group, he began a Facebook column on addiction and mental illness called "Couchsurfing". The column, along with 20 prison diaries, became The Five People You'll Meet in Prison.

Bibliography

  • All-American Monster: The Unauthorized Biography of Timothy McVeigh (Prometheus Books, 1996) ISBN 1-57392-088-6
  • The Amazing Seven Sutherland Sisters: A Biography of America's First Celebrity Models (Niagara County Historical Society, 2012) ISBN 978-1-878233-33-2
  • The Five People You'll Meet in Prison: A Memoir of Addiction, Mania & Hope (Bancroft Press, 2020) ISBN 978-1610881968

References

  1. ↑ Continelli, Louise (April 19, 2009). "Biographer of McVeigh has moved on from dark era". The Buffalo News.
  2. ↑ "Oklahoma City: The Weight of Evidence". Time. April 28, 1997. Archived from the original on November 5, 2012. Retrieved June 11, 2010.
  3. ↑ Stickney, Brandon (July 10, 2006). "Old letter reports nine Sutherland sisters". Niagara Gazette.
  4. ↑ "Sideshow World, Sideshow Performers from around the world". Archived from the original on July 17, 2010. Retrieved 2010-06-21.
  5. ↑ Prohaska, Tom (November 21, 2020). "Lockport man's prison memoir: 'I knew there was a story there that wasn't being told'". The Buffalo News.
  6. ↑ "The Five People You'll Meet in Prison: A Memoir of Addiction, Mania & Hope". Kirkus Reviews. Vol. LXXXVIII, no. 15. August 1, 2020.
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