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Ed Leibowitz,
Writer

Ed Leibowitz

Grown-ups talk and talk and talk. Do they ever stop talking? I take all of their talking and put it in a book. With pictures!

Favourite book
The Little Drummer Girl by John le Carré

Six-word memoir
Life is a cabaret, old chum

Chops

  • A chronicler of dreamers and doers and shakers and movers and the occasional innocent bystander — all caught up in the greater and lesser events of our time

  • Published in such venues as the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, the Atlantic, Smithsonian, and Politico

  • Won the PEN Center USA Literary Journalism Award for “The Takeover Artist”, a profile of embattled former Los Angeles Unified School District Chief John Deasy in Los Angeles magazine

  • MA from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. Winner of that institution’s magazine writing prize

Deepest fear
That any day now my dog is going to just throw up his paws and hand me a vote of no confidence.