Phyllis Karas

Phyllis Karas, the author of a dozen books, taught journalism at Boston University and was a stringer for People magazine. She is the co-author, alongside Kevin Weeks, of the New York Times bestseller Brutal: The Untold Story of My Life Inside Whitey Bulger’s Irish Mob. She co-authored, with Kiki Feroudi Moutsatsos, The Onassis Women: An Eyewitness Account, the subject of a Dateline NBC special. An award-winning journalist, her work has appeared in Vogue, the Miami Herald, the Boston Globe, and Boston Magazine among others, and she wrote a popular column, “Wit, Wisdom and Woe,” for the Boston Herald.

An alumna of Boston University and George Washington University, Karas and her husband, Jack, a retired physician, are longtime residents of Marblehead, Massachusetts. She has two sons and three grandchildren.