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Dylan Struzan

Biography

Dylan Struzan

Dylan Struzan began working on A BLOODY BUSINESS in 1995, shortly after meeting Jimmy Alo in retirement in Florida, and she spent the next 20 years researching and writing the book. She has also written the text of OEUVRE, a book collecting the iconic movie art of her husband of more than 50 years, Drew Struzan. Together with Drew, Dylan has spent the past several decades immersed in the world of Hollywood writers, directors and musicians, counting as family friends the likes of George Lucas, Steven Spielberg and Guillermo del Toro.

Dylan Struzan

Books by Dylan Struzan

A Bloody Business: The Rise of Organized Crime in America
written by Dylan Struzan, illustrated by Drew Struzan - History, Nonfiction, True Crime

Called "one of the most significant organized crime figures in the United States" by the U.S. District Attorney, Vincent "Jimmy Blue Eyes" Alo was just 15 years old when Prohibition became law. Over the next decade, Alo would work side by side with Lucky Luciano and Meyer Lansky as they navigated the brutal underworld of bootlegging, thievery and murder. Introduced to the 91-year-old Alo living in retirement in Florida, Dylan Struzan based A BLOODY BUSINESS on more than 50 hours of recorded testimony --- stories Alo had never shared, and that he forbid her to publish until "after I'm gone." Alo died, peacefully, two months short of his 97th birthday. And now his stories --- bracing and violent, full of intrigue and betrayal, hunger and hubris --- can finally be told.