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The Author's Corner With Bob Halloran

Melrose Public Library will host Bob Halloran at The Author's Corner on Wednesday, October 30, 2013 at 7:30p.m. Bob is the weekend sports anchor for WCVB TV SportsCenter 5 and author of the book Impact Statement:A Family's Fight for Justice Against Whitey Bulger, Stephen Flemmi, and the FBI.

Books will be available for purchase and signing.

Bob has also written four other books; Irish Thunder:The Hard Life and Times of Micky Ward, (He was a technical consultant for the academy award nominated film, The Fighter, starring Mark Wahlberg as Irish Micky Ward and Best Supporting Actor, Christian Bale as Micky's brother, Dicky Ecklund.) Destiny Derailed:the 2003 Red Sox, Breakdown:A Season of Gang Warfare, High School Football, and the Coach Who Policed the Streets in which Halloran he gets inside the life or death struggles of student athletes from various gangs in Chelsea, Massachusetts, and In the Fellowship of the No Longer Miserable written as a fundraiser for the Jimmy Fund.

Bob is the recipient of a New England Emmy Award and two honors from the Associated Press.

He is a graduate of Washington & Lee, and lives in the Boston area with his wife, Eileen Curran and their daughter, Grace. He has three sons, Sean, Daniel and Liam.

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