Andrew Welsh-Huggins

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Andrew Welsh-Huggins is an American journalist and author of both fiction and nonfiction books about crime. He graduated from Kenyon College. [1]

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Welsh-Huggins is legal-affairs reporter for the Associated Press in Columbus, Ohio. [2]

He is the author of the Andy Hayes series of mystery novels, featuring a former Ohio State Buckeyes quarterback working as a private investigator. [2]

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  2. 1 2 "Five writers to appear at Thurber House". Columbus Dispatch. 2 May 2014. Retrieved 23 April 2017.
  3. Casey-Leininger, Charles F. (2015). "Book Review: Andrew Welsh-Huggins. No Winners Here Tonight: Race, Politics, and Geography in One of the Country's Busiest Death Penalty States". Vol. 9, no. 1 (Fall 2015). Northeast Ohio Journal of History. Retrieved 23 April 2017.
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