Gary M. Lavergne, Author and Educator

Best-selling authors like Vincent Bugliosi and Gerald Posner had rave reviews for Gary Lavergne's A Sniper in the Tower. Then he took on Kenneth Allen McDuff in a book Dan Rather called "classic crime reporting." In his latest book from UNT Press, Gary writes about the largest mass murder in the history of Dallas, Texas, and the case that made mass murder a capital crime in Texas!

"Gary Lavergne has impeccable journalistic talents... Gerald Posner, Author, Why America Slept

"Reading the authoritative account of the Whitman case, A Sniper in the Tower by Gary M. Lavergne -- which was published in 1997, before our recent mass murders -- one feels it's as much prophecy as history." Frank Rich of the New York Times

"This is a superbly written book... It is among the best I have read in its genre... " Bob Brown, Correspondent, ABC News 20/20

"Gary Lavergne is the best true crime storyteller I've read since Truman Capote." Kinky Friedman

See an excerpt of Gary's recent appearance on DATELINE NBC

Listen to Virginia Tech NPR interview of Gary Lavergne

Read Gary's Op-Ed on the Virginia Tech Tragedy in the Chronicle of Higher Education

Read Gary's Commentary "College Admissions as Conspiracy Theory" in the Chronicle of Higher Education