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name: Bill Steigerwald
about: Bill Steigerwald has written five books since retiring from his newspaper career, his journalism/civil rights history book "30 Days a Black Man" (2017), and "Dogging Steinbeck" (2013), his expose of the fictions and lies John Steinbeck and his publisher put into "Travels With Charley." He wrote and edited "Undercover in the Land of Jim Crow," which reprints the 1948 series written by Ray Sprigle (the subject of "30 Days a Black Man." And in 2022 he wrote 'Grandpa Bear Goes to Washington," an illustrated "adult kids book" about a polar bear who goes to Washington to tell the politicians there that his species is not endangered by climate change. He is a veteran journalist from Pittsburgh who worked as an editor and writer/reporter/columnist Bill Steigerwald has written five books since retiring from his newspaper career, his journalism/civil rights history book "30 Days a Black Man" (2017), and "Dogging Steinbeck" (2013), his expose of the fictions and lies John Steinbeck and his publisher put into "Travels With Charley." He wrote and edited "Undercover in the Land of Jim Crow," which reprints the 1948 series written by Ray Sprigle (the subject of "30 Days a Black Man." And in 2022 he wrote 'Grandpa Bear Goes to Washington," an illustrated "adult kids book" about a polar bear who goes to Washington to tell the politicians there that his species is not endangered by climate change. He is a veteran journalist from Pittsburgh who worked as an editor and writer/reporter/columnist for the Los Angeles Times in the 1980s, the Post-Gazette in the 1990s and the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review in the 2000s. His interviews and libertarian op-ed columns were nationally syndicated for about five years at CagleCartoons.com, and he worked briefly for CBS-TV in Hollywood in the late 1970s. Steigerwald's freelance articles, interviews and commentaries have appeared in many of the major newspapers in the USA and in magazines like Reason, Penthouse and Family Circle. He retired from the daily newspaper business in March 2009. He and his wife Trudi live south of Pittsburgh in the woods. ...more