Paul Lieberman

A native New Yorker, Paul Lieberman is a graduate of Williams College and was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard, where he studied law and social history.  He worked for 24 years as a writer and editor at the Los Angeles Times, and before that was projects editor of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.  He has won dozens of journalism honors, including the Robert F. Kennedy Awards Grand Prize, the George Polk Award, the Gerald Loeb Award, and the American Society of Newspaper Editors Award.  He also shared in two team Pulitzer Prizes at the Los Angeles Times,as a writer on its coverage of the Los Angeles riots and an editor of its reporting on the Northridge earthquake.  His non-fiction book version of "Gangster Squad" was published by the Thomas Dunne books division of St. Martin's Press.

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