Cory Frye is a Society of Professional Journalists and Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association award-winning writer and editor whose work since 1991 has appeared, variously, in the Oregonian (Portland, OR), the Albany Democrat-Herald (Albany, OR), Corvallis Gazette-Times (Corvallis, OR), Maggot Brain, Under the Radar, Hit List, Yahoo! Music and the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. From 2000 to 2007, he was a writer, researcher, and editor for the Rhino Entertainment record label in Los Angeles (for whom he still works when asked), where he even co-produced a pair of releases: the deliriously slaughtered Whatever: The ’90s Pop & Culture Box (2005) and the better-acclaimed Afghan Whigs career compendium, Unbreakable: A Retrospective (2007). In 2015, he published his first book, Murder in Linn County, Oregon: The True Story of the Legendary Plainview Killings (Arcadia Publishing/The History Press), which explored the 1922-23 deaths of two area sheriffs. His second, an in-depth biography of the Rowan & Martin comedy team, is planned for 2027.