Barry Siegel


Barry Siegel is an American journalist. He is a former national correspondent for the Los Angeles Times who won the Pulitzer Prize for [Feature Writing] in 2002 for his piece "A Father's Pain, a Judge's Duty, and a Justice Beyond Their Reach." In 2003, University of [California, Irvine] recruited Siegel to chair the school's new undergraduate degree program in literary journalism.
Siegel is the author of the true crime novel A Death in [White Bear Lake], which is considered by many to be a seminal document regarding child abuse. He is also the author of Dreamers and Schemers: How an Improbable Bid for the 1932 Olympics Transformed Los Angeles from Dusty Outpost to Global Metropolis; Manifest Injustice; ''Claim of Privilege: A Mysterious Plane Crash, a Landmark Supreme Court Case, and the Rise of State Secrets; and a co-author of After Snowden: Privacy, Secrecy, and Security in the Information Age''.
Siegel lives in Sherman Oaks and Irvine, California.

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