Bill Bleyer was a prize-winning staff reporter for Newsday, the Long Island daily newspaper, for thirty-three years before retiring in 2014 to write books and freelance for the newspaper and magazines. He is coauthor, with Harrison Hunt, of Long Island and the Civil War (The History Press, 2015). He is the author of Sagamore Hill: Theodore Roosevelt's Summer White House (The History Press, 2016); Fire Island Lighthouse: Long Island's Welcoming Beacon (The History Press, 2017); Long Island and the Sea: A Maritime History (The History Press, 2019) and George Washington's Long Island Spy Ring: A History and Tour Guide (The History Press, 2021). His work has been published on Smithsonian.com and in Civil War News, America's Civil War, Naval History, Sea History, Lighthouse Digest and numerous other magazines and newspapers.