 John Hoerr is a novelist and a former labor journalist who has published three nonfiction books about labor, industry and politics.
His newest book, Monongahela Dusk, is a colorful historical novel of the 1930s-40s set in the Monongahela Valley southeast of Pittsburgh. It was here that the American steel industry sprang to life in the 19th Century and for more than 100 years sent forth great rivers of metal to build modern America.
 A union leader and a local businessman who live and work in a Monongahela mill town are caught in webs of intrigue and violence. With love stories, labor disputes, racial tensions, and political corruption, the novel ends in a denouement that hints of a bleak economic future for America’s steel valley.
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