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Barry Siegel (born September 7, 1949) 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 (with Ronald Goldfarb, Edward Wasserman, David D. Cole, Hodding Carter III, Thomas S. Blanton, and Jon L. Mills).

Siegel lives in Sherman Oaks and Irvine, California.

Awards and honors

• 1984 Livingston Award for National Reporting for "El Nino: The World Turns Topsy-Turvy" (Los Angeles Times)
• 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing for "A Father's Pain, a Judge's Duty, and a Justice Beyond Their Reach" (Los Angeles Times)

References

1. "The Pulitzer Prizes".
2. "Review: How one man's wheeling and dealing brought the Olympics to L.A. and changed the city". Los Angeles Times. 2019-10-31. Retrieved 2020-12-25.
3. "Past Winners". Recognizing Young Journalists. Livingston Awards: University of Michigan. 2024. pp. 26–41.

External links

• Official website
• "A Father's Pain, a Judge's Duty, and a Justice Beyond Their Reach"
• Barry Siegel biographical and Pulitzer Prize information
• UC Irvine's Literary Journalism Program

v t e Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing
1979–2000	Jon D. Franklin (1979) Madeleine Blais (1980) Teresa Carpenter (1981) Saul Pett (1982) Nan C. Robertson (1983) Peter Mark Rinearson (1984) Alice Steinbach (1985) John Camp (1986) Steve Twomey (1987) Jacqui Banaszynski (1988) David Zucchino (1989) Dave Curtin (1990) Sheryl James (1991) Howell Raines (1992) George Lardner Jr. (1993) Isabel Wilkerson (1994) Ron Suskind (1995) Rick Bragg (1996) Lisa Pollak (1997) Thomas French (1998) Angelo B. Henderson (1999) J. R. Moehringer (2000)
2001–2025	Tom Hallman, Jr. (2001) Barry Siegel (2002) Sonia Nazario (2003) not awarded (2004) Julia Keller (2005) Jim Sheeler (2006) Andrea Elliott (2007) Gene Weingarten (2008) Lane DeGregory (2009) Gene Weingarten (2010) Amy Ellis Nutt (2011) Eli Sanders (2012) John Branch (2013) not awarded (2014) Diana Marcum (2015) Kathryn Schulz (2016) C. J. Chivers (2017) Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah (2018) Hannah Dreier (2019) Ben Taub (2020) Mitchell S. Jackson (2021) Jennifer Senior (2022) Eli Saslow (2023)

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