Bill Steigerwald

Bill Steigerwald is a Pittsburgh-born author and journalist who worked as an editor and writer/reporter/columnist for the Los Angeles Times in the 1980s, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in the 1990s and the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review in the 2000s. Hundreds of his Q&A interviews and libertarian op-ed columns written for the Pittsburgh Trib were nationally syndicated in the 2000s by CagleCartoons.com.[1] His free-lance articles and commentaries have appeared in major newspapers in the USA and in magazines like Reason.[2] In 2009 he retired from daily newspaper work to focus on writing books.[3] His Dogging Steinbeck: Discovering America and Exposing The Truth About Travels with Charley,[4] carefully retraced the 10,000-mile road trip around the USA that author John Steinbeck made in 1960 for his nonfiction classic Travels with Charley. Steigerwald's research in libraries and on his own 11,276-mile road trip in 2010 proved that Steinbeck and his editors at The Viking Press had significantly fictionalized the account of his iconic journey.

Steigerwald's 2017 history book 30 Days a Black Man [5]tells the forgotten story of Pittsburgh Post-Gazette star reporter Ray Sprigle's daring undercover mission into the Jim Crow South in 1948.[6] Born in 1947, Bill Steigerwald is the oldest member of the Pittsburgh multimedia family that includes his TV sports brothers John Steigerwald (formerly of KDKA-TV) and Paul Steigerwald (former radio and TV play-by-play announcer of the Pittsburgh Penguins) and Dan Steigerwald (aka, Danny Stag, lead guitarist for the hard-rock band Kingdom Come).


References

  1. "CagleCartoons.com - Columnist Bio for Bill Steigerwald". es.caglecartoons.com.
  2. "Bill Steigerwald".
  3. Steigerwald, Bill (2009-03-15). "My last words ... - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review". Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. Archived from the original on 2009-11-25. Retrieved 2018-03-22.
  4. https://www.amazon.com/Dogging-Steinbeck-Steinbecks-America-ebook/dp/B00A6X9ZR0. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  5. https://www.amazon.com/30-Days-Black-Man-Forgotten/dp/1493026186. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  6. Sciullo, Maria (June 14, 2017). "Ray Sprigle's journey in '30 Days A Black Man'". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.


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