About the author
Scott Martelle is a veteran journalist and a former staff writer for the L. A. Times. He is a journalist of the third generation and was born in Scarborough, Maine. He spent part of his childhood there, and the rest in Wellsville, New York, which is two hours south of the town of Buffalo. He got his first newspaper job at age sixteen, where he wrote a sports column for a weekly high school newspaper called the Wellsville Patriot. He then started covering local news on a part-time basis for the Wellsville Daily Reporter.
Martelle attended Fredonia State University. Here, he was the editor ...
