{"id":26,"date":"2025-11-19T02:46:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T02:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/AuthorHouse\/862593\/?page_id=26"},"modified":"2025-11-19T05:33:27","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T05:33:27","slug":"about-the-author","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/AuthorHouse\/862593\/about-the-author\/","title":{"rendered":"About the Author"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/AuthorHouse\/862593\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/author.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1900\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Stephen G. Yanoff<\/strong> is a twenty-year veteran of the insurance industry and an acknowledged expert in the field of high risk insurance placement. He holds a bachelor\u2019s, master\u2019s, and doctoral degree from the Texas A&amp;M University System.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In addition to <em>The Long Hard Fall<\/em>, he is the author of seven other award-winning mystery novels, including <em>The Graceland Gang, The Pirate Path, Devil\u2019s Cove, Ransom on the Rhone, A Run for the Money, Capone Island,<\/em> and <em>Dead Ending<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr. Yanoff has also written several highly acclaimed history books, including <em>The Second Mourning, Turbulent Times, Gone Before Glory<\/em>, and <em>Wonder Of The West<\/em>. The author\u2019s fiction and non-fiction books have won over forty national and international literary awards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A native of Long Island, New York, he currently lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife, two daughters, and an ever-growing family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For more information about the author or his books, readers can go to: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stephengyanoff.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">www.stephengyanoff.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:260px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen G. Yanoff is a twenty-year veteran of the insurance industry and an acknowledged expert in the field of high risk insurance placement. He holds a bachelor\u2019s, master\u2019s, and doctoral degree from the Texas A&amp;M University System. In addition to The Long Hard Fall, he is the author of seven other award-winning mystery novels, including &hellip; <\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/AuthorHouse\/862593\/about-the-author\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;About the Author&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1922,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-full.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-26","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","no-comments"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/AuthorHouse\/862593\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/AuthorHouse\/862593\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/AuthorHouse\/862593\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/AuthorHouse\/862593\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/AuthorHouse\/862593\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/AuthorHouse\/862593\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/AuthorHouse\/862593\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/AuthorHouse\/862593\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}