Matt Birkbeck is an author and award-winning investigative journalist. A reporter for the Morning Call, he is a former correspondent for People magazine and has written for the New York Times, Reader's Digest, Boston Magazine, and the Philadelphia Inquirer. He is the author of both A Beautiful Child and A Deadly Secret, which was the subject of an MSNBC documentary, and coauthored Till Death Do Us Part. The recipient of an Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) award in 2002, he lives in Pennsylvania.