Born in Woodside, Queens, and raised on Long Island, EDWARD BURNS has made fourteen feature films as a writer-director-actor and has starred in films such as Saving Private Ryan.  Burns’s first film, The Brothers McMullen, premiered at the 1995 Sundance Film Festival, winning the Grand Jury prize. The film also won “Best First Feature” at the 1996 Independent Spirit Awards. In 2015, he published Independent Ed, an inside look at his two decades as a pioneer in independent filmmaking. A Kid from Marlboro Road is his first novel, based on his childhood memories and the Irish-American communities of the Bronx and Long Island. Burns lives in New York City with his wife and two children.