Louis L. Picone is the award-winning author of Ulysses’s Odyssey: Ulysses S. Grant’s World Tour at the Dawn of American Empire, Grant's Tomb: The Epic Death of Ulysses S. Grant and the Making of an American Pantheon, and The President Is Dead! The Extraordinary Stories of the Presidential Deaths, Final Days, Burials, and Beyond 

Louis is a trustee on the board of the Grover Cleveland Presidential Library & Museum in Caldwell, NJ. He holds a Masters in History and also teaches at William Paterson University

Louis has spoken widely about the presidents including the US Grant Symposium, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library, White House Historical Association Presidential Sites Summit in Dallas; James A. Garfield National Historic Site in Ohio; and the international conference "U.S. Presidents and Russian Rulers" at the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow. He has appeared on various media outlets including C-Span,  the Travel Channel, Time Magazine, the BBC, NPR, and the Washington Post.