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Bruce DeSilva worked as a journalist for
40 years before retiring to write crime novels full time. At
the Associated Press, he served
as the writing coach, responsible for training the wire service's
reporters and editors worldwide. Previously, he directed an elite
AP department devoted to investigative reporting and other special
projects. Earlier in his career, he worked as an investigative
reporter and an editor at The Hartford Courant and The
Providence Journal.
Stories edited by DeSilva have won virtually every major journalism
prize including the Polk Award (twice), the Livingston (twice),
the ASNE, and the Batten Medal. He also edited two Pulitzer finalists
and helped edit a Pulitzer winner.
He has worked as a consultant on writing and editing at more than
50 newspapers including The New York Times and The
Dallas Morning News, and he has been a sought-after speaker at professional journalism
gatherings including the National Writers Workshops and the Nieman
Foundation. His reviews of crime novels have appeared in The
New York Times book review section and continue to be published occasionally
by The Associated Press.
He and his wife Patricia Smith, an award-winning poet, live in
Howell, NJ, with their granddaughter Mikaila and an enormous Bernese
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