Barry Siegel 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". He is an expert on literary journalism and was
recruited by the University of California, Irvine to chair that
school's new English program in Literary Journalism. Siegel is the
author of the influential true crime novel A Death in White Bear
Lake, which is considered by many to be a seminal document regarding
child abuse. Siegel lives in Thousand Oaks and Irvine, California.