Abby Mendelson is a veteran, award-winning Pittsburgh writer and reporter, novelist and short-story writer. Author of numerous Pittsburgh-related books, he has written Voices from the Hill: A Celebration of the Hill House Association; Arena: Remembering the Igloo (with David Aschkenas); Pittsburgh: A Place in Time (landmark essays on Pittsburgh neighborhoods); Pittsburgh Prays: Thirty-Six Houses of Worship; Pittsburgh Born, Pittsburgh Bred (with Prentiss Orr and Tripp Clarke); and The Pittsburgh Steelers Official History; among many others.