Bob Drogin, author of Curveball |
BOB DROGIN has covered intelligence and national security in the Washington bureau of the Los Angeles Times since 1998. He spent most of the previous decade as a foreign correspondent, reporting on Nelson Mandela's election as president of South Africa, the genocide in Rwanda, the Persian Gulf War, and other news from nearly 50 countries in Asia, the Middle East, and Africa.
Drogin first joined the Los Angeles Times in 1983 as a national correspondent based in New York City. He traveled to nearly every state and covered the 1984 and 1988 presidential campaigns
A native of Bayonne, NJ, Drogin dropped out of college to backpack in Asia for a year and later hitchhiked to Alaska. He graduated from Oberlin College - where he once took a course in bowling (he passed) - and received his Master's degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
Drogin has won or shared numerous journalism prizes, including the Pulitzer Prize, an Overseas Press Club of America Award, two Robert F. Kennedy Journalism awards, an International Center for Investigative Journalism Award, and a George Polk Award. He was a John S. Knight Fellow at Stanford University in 1997 and a Media Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford in 2006.
He lives with his wife and two children in Silver Spring, MD.
Contact Bob via e-mail at curveball@bobdrogin.com. |
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