Before becoming a full-time writer, George Hopkins was a sergeant in the United States Marine Corps and an English chairperson of an NYC High School. He has taught writing in workshops, colleges, and in Puerto Rico and twice was chosen by NY Association of Teachers as Teacher of the Year. NY1 honored him as a New Yorker of the Week for his work with senior writers, and .he has received two CTV NOVA Awards for community service. Each of his three previous mystery-suspense novels received awards, and the most recent, Letters from the Dead, was one of six finalists in the 2013 International Readers' Favorite Book Awards and won second prize in the Reader Views Book Contest in mystery-suspense-thriller.
