Bill Kauffman is the author of many books, among them Dispatches from the Muckdog Gazette: A Mostly Affectionate Account of a Small Town's Fight to Survive, which won the 2003 national Sense of Place award from Writers & Books, and Ain't My America: The Long, Noble History of Antiwar Conservatism and Middle-American Anti-Imperialism. He also wrote the screenplay for the feature film Copperhead, set in upstate New York. He lives in his native Batavia, New York.