Bob Sipchen spent much of his journalism career at the Los Angeles Times, where he served as a reporter, columnist and Sunday Opinion Editor and won, with Alex Raksin, a Pulitzer for editorial writing, shared in the paper’s Pulitzer for its team coverage of the Los Angeles riots and shared, as an editor, in the 2014 Pulitzer for coverage of the terrorist attacks in San Bernardino, California. He was Editor in Chief of Sierra Magazine and communications director for the Sierra Club, America’s oldest, largest and most effective grassroots environmental organization. He teaches journalism and communications in the Writing and Rhetoric Department at Occidental College in Los Angeles, and is the author of a non-fiction book on Southern California street gangs, Baby Insane and the Buddha, which the New York Times Book Review called, “a lucid, cinematic read.” He lives in Los Angeles with his wife Pam and has three grown children. He is working on a novel about a hapless cognitive scientist drawn into a femme fatale's risky quest, and on a memoir about growing up in a small residence on the grounds of a California State mental institution where his psychiatrist aunt took in and housed over a dozen members of her sprawling, hugely dysfuctional extended family.
