Renowned author Amanda M. Fairbanks visited Ross on Monday to speak about her book, The Lost Boys of Montauk, at the last Middle School and High School PA Meeting of the year.

Amanda M. Fairbanks is a journalist who has worked in the editorial department of The New York Times, as a reporter for HuffPost, and at The East Hampton Star, where she wrote investigative stories, features, and profiles. Her writing has also appeared in The Boston Globe, Newsweek, The Atlantic, and The San Francisco Chronicle. A graduate of Smith College and a former Teach for America corps member, she has two master's degrees from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism and currently lives with her family in Sag Harbor. 

The Lost Boys of Montauk is an immersive account of a tragedy at sea whose repercussions haunt its survivors to this day. It was lauded by New York Times bestselling author Ron Suskind as "an honest and touching book, and a hell of a story."