One Man's Mirror: S. J. Kelly's Wonderful Cleveland Wayback Machine Tapa blanda - 2011

Now a Vermont resident, John Stark Bellamy II spent most of his first six decades in Cleveland, Ohio. His family was long associated with Cleveland journalism: his grandfather Paul began writing for the Plain Dealer in 1907 and later served two decades as editor-in-chief of the paper, while his father, Peter, toiled 48 years as a reporter, columnist and drama critic for the Cleveland News and Plain Dealer. Although his primary career was as a librarian for the Cuyahoga County Library. John also dabbled at journalism, chiefly as a Plain Dealer book reviewer during the 1980s and 1990s. During the latter decade he became best known as the perpetrator of books about Cleveland area murders and disasters. His other books include "They Died Crawling," "The Maniac in the Bushes," The Corpse in the Cellar," The Killer in the Attic," "Death Ride at Euclid Beach," "Women Behaving Badly," "Cleveland's Greatest Disasters," "Vintage Vermont Villainies" and "A Woman Scorned: The Murder of George Saxton -- An American Melodrama."