Barry Siegel (born September 7, 1949) is an American journalist. He is a former national correspondent for the ''

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'' who won the

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for

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in 2002 for his piece "A Father's Pain, a Judge's Duty, and a Justice Beyond Their Reach." In 2003,

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recruited Siegel to chair the school's new undergraduate degree program in literary journalism. Siegel is the author of the

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novel '' A Death in White Bear Lake'', which is considered by many to be a seminal document regarding

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. 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,

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, Thomas S. Blanton, and Jon L. Mills). Siegel lives in

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and

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References

External links

"A Father's Pain, a Judge's Duty, and a Justice Beyond Their Reach"Barry Siegel biographical and Pulitzer Prize informationOfficial WebsiteUC Irvine's Literary Journalism Program
University of California, Irvine faculty Siegel, Harry 1949 births Living people 20th-century American journalists American male journalists {{US-journalist-1940s-stub