Barry Siegel Biography

Barry Siegel winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing is a former national correspondent for the Los Angeles Times. He now directs the literary journalism program at University of California Irvine where he is a professor of English. His writing has garnered dozens of other honors among them two PEN Center West Literary Awards in Journalism the Livingston Award and the American Bar Association Silver Gavel Award. He is the author of five previous books including two volumes of literary journalism ­- A Death in White Bear Lake and Shades of Gray - and three novels of legal suspense. He has given several talks at universities journalism schools and literary festivals.
Siegel’s latest book is Claim of Privilege: A Mysterious Plane Crash a Landmark Supreme Court Case and the Rise of State Secrets (Harper) a dramatic suspenseful character-driven narrative about the mysterious 1948 crash of an Air Force B-29 in Georgia; the lawsuit filed by the widows of men who died in the crash; and the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling U.S. v. Reynolds which formally recognized the States Secrets Privilege forever changing the balance of power in America. Jeffrey Tobin says Siegel “offers a timely reminder of the perils of government secrecy.”

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