Howie Carr

<DIV><B>Howie Carr</B> is the author of two <I>New York Times</I> bestsellers, <I>The Brothers Bulger</I> and <I>Hitman</I>. Before Bulger fled in 1994, Carr was such an implacable foe of the serial killing gangster that Whitey tried to kill him as he left his house in suburban Boston -- an incident reported in 2006 on <I>60 Minutes</I>. Whitey's younger brother, Billy Bulger, then the president of the Mass. State Senate, publicly referred to Carr as "the savage." Carr is also the host of daily syndicated four-hour radio program heard throughout New England, and is a member of the national Radio Hall of Fame in Chicago. He won a National Magazine Award in 1985 for Essays & Criticism in <I>Boston Magazine</I>.</DIV>