Virginia McConnell Simmons

Virginia A. McConnell is an acclaimed writer of historical true crime books, including *Arsenic Under the Elms: Murder in Victorian New Haven*, *Sympathy for the Devil: The Emmanuel Baptist Murders of Old San Francisco*, and *Fatal Fortune: The Death of Chicago’s Millionaire Orphan*. She also serves as an English instructor at Walla Walla Community College-Clarkston Campus in Washington.