James Sheehan

James Sheehan was born and raised in New York City and grew up in a four-room railroad apartment with his five brothers and sisters.

He started working at the age of twelve, shining shoes at a local shoe repair shop. At fourteen, he had a newspaper route. During school, he worked at a local delicatessen, an antique store where he stripped and delivered furniture, as a construction worked during the summers, a short-order cook throughout his college years, and as a roofer's assistant while he attended graduate school in Florida.

He is currently a trial attorney in Tampa, Florida where he has practised law for many years.His experience of growing up in New York has shaped his life.

The Mayor of Lexington Avenue is his first novel.

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