Alan Simon is the USA TODAY bestselling author of several historical novels set in the mid-20th century: The First Christmas of the War, Thanksgiving, 1942, The First Christmas After the War, and Unfinished Business. He is also the author of the USA TODAY bestseller Gettysburg, 1913: The Complete Novel of the Great Reunion about the 1913 "Great Reunion" that was held exactly 50 years after the Battle of Gettysburg and was attended by more than 50,000 aging Civil War veterans. His most recently published historical novel is The DeLuca Furlough Brides - Book 1: The Ones They Left Behind, with other historical fiction titles in progress.

Alan is also the co-author (with his wife, Erica Bianco Ellis) of two contemporary romance/women's fiction titles: Venice Redux and Lost at Sea.

He is a native of Pittsburgh (where several of his novels are set) and currently lives in Phoenix.