About the Author


Peter Jedick’s career as a best-selling author and historian spans several decades. On a national scale, he has authored four books and written for several magazines including America in World War II and Baseball America. As a local writer in Northeast Ohio, he has written for every major news organization including the Cleveland Plain DealerCleveland MagazineSun Newspapers and The Cleveland Press.

The recipient of an Excellence in Journalism award from the Press Club of Cleveland, Jedick has been interviewed and recognized by numerous TV and radio shows. He also had a stint as an award-winning radio commentator for WKSU-FM, an NPR (National Public Radio) station.

Jedick is best known for his novel HIPPIES (Amazon), a love story set on the campus of Kent State University. It portrays the wild times leading up to the tragic events of May 4th 1970 when four students were killed by the Ohio National Guard during an anti-Vietnam War protest. It was an international event and Jedick was on the Kent campus that tragic day.   (www.hippiesbook.com)

HIPPIES was well received on college campuses across the country and he addressed students at Harvard, Yale, Columbia and Ohio State University. He graduated cum laude, with honors from Kent State University in 1971.

Jedick’s second novel, The West Tech Terrorist (Amazon), is a fast-moving detective story set in Cleveland, Ohio when the U.S. was on the brink of World War II and Eliot Ness was Cleveland’s Safety Director. High school sports editor Victor Blazek joins forces with his girlfriend, Doris, to foil a plot hatched by Nazi sympathizers.  (www.westtechterrorist.com)

Another popular book, CLEVELAND: Where the East Coast Meets the Midwest, is an entertaining history of Cleveland with over 100 historic photos. Jedick recounts stories about his fair city, once referred to as the “Best Location in the Nation,” and includes its challenges and triumphs, from Millionaire’s Row to Eliot Ness and everything in between.

Jedick also authored League Park, a book detailing the early days of Cleveland history and its first professional baseball stadium. (At the current time the two non-fiction books are out of print. But League Park is available on Amazon Kindle.)

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