EXPERIENCE

• Los Angeles Times, corresspondent/senior writer/National, Los Angeles, 1983-; correspondent, National, Los Angeles, 1980-1983; special assignment writer, covering the social impact of television, 1979; View section writer, 1976-78.
• Visiting journalist and lecturer, USC School of Journalism, spring 1988.
• Women's Wear Daily, West Coast news editor, 1973-76.
• Newsweek, stringer, Los Angeles bureau, 1973.
• L.A. Weekly, staff writer, 1972.
• Washington Post, summer intern, 1970.
• Portland's Oregonian, summer intern, 1970.
  

EDUCATION

• Columbia University, Graduate School of Journalism, M.S. Journalism, 1972.
• Pomona College, Pomona, California. B.A., English, 1971. Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude.
  

PERSONAL

• Born: Sept. 7, 1949. St. Louis, MO.
• Married: Marti Devore
• Children: Alexandra Nicole.
  

AWARDS

• PEN Center USA West Literary Award in Journalism, 2000.
• Los Angeles Times Editorial Award for best foreign, national or business article, 1997.
• Los Angeles Times Editorial Award for best example of good writing in any department, 1996 and 1993.
• National Headliner Award, third place in the feature writing category for five stories that appeared in Column One and the Los Angeles Times Magazine, 1994.
• Los Angeles Times Editorial Award for best article in the Los Angeles Times Magazine or in Sunday Calendar, 1994.
• Best of the West Aard, first place of environment and natural resources reporting, 1991.
• Los Angeles Times Editorial Award for best View, Calendar, Sports or special section article, 1989.
• Los Angeles Times Criminal Courts Bar Assn. Legal Journalism Award, 1987.
• PEN Center USA West Journalism Award, 1987.
• Los Angeles Times Editorial Award for best example of good writing in any department, regardless of subject, timeliness or deadline, 1986.
• American Bar Assn. Silver Gavel Award, 1985.
• State Bar of California, Golden Medallion Media Award, co-winner, first place, for distinguished reporting on the administration of justice, 1984.
• Greater Los Angeles Press Club Best News Writing Award, 1984.
• California-Nevada UPI Best News Writing Award, 1984.
• The Livingston Award for Young Journalists, national reporting, 1983.
• Los Angeles Times Editorial Award for best national, foreign or Washington reporting without deadline pressure, 1982.
• Los Angeles Times Editorial Award for best metropolitan reporting without deadline pressure, 1977.
• Paul Tobenkin Memorial Award, 1977.
  

PUBLICATIONS

• Actual Innocence, Ballantine, 1999.
• The Perfect Witness, Ballantine, 1998.
• Shades of Gray, Bantam Books, 1992.
• A Death in White Bear Lake, Bantam Books, 1990.
• Freelance articles in Atlantic and Rolling Stone.