Bill Steigerwald

Bill Steigerwald is an author and former journalist. He is part of a prominent Pittsburgh family of media figures. Steigerwald wrote Dogging Steinbeck; Discovering America and Exposing The Truth About Travels with Charley,[1] retracing author John Steinbeck's Travels with Charley journey to the Western United States. Steigerwald also wrote 30 Days a Black Man about Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reporter Ray Sprigle's undercover investigation of the Jim Crow Era American South.[2] Steigerwald traveled in the South for three weeks in 1998, visiting areas Sprigle did. He also wrote about the Delta in the Back Page feature section of Post-Gazette in 2009 and covered Back Page feature on another trip to the Delta and covered the 2011 play “All Blues” about Sprigle and John Wesley Dobbs.[2] Steigerwald posts about political issies and Pittsburgh on his blog.

John Steigerwald and Paul Steigerwald are his younger brothers. His wife name is Trudi and they live south of Pittsburgh in the "woods".

Steigerwald did a stint at CBS-TV in Hollywood in the late 1970s. He was an editor and reporter for the Los Angeles Times in the 1980s, worked at the Post-Gazette in the 1990s, and was with the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review in the 2000s. His work also includes interviews and syndicated libertarian op-ed columns. In 2009 he retired from daily newspaper work to focus on writing books.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Yesterday Into Today: John Steinbeck". Livermore Independent. November 23, 2017. Retrieved March 5, 2018.
  2. 1 2 Ray Sprigle’s journey in ’30 Days A Black Man’ June 14, 2017 by Maria Sciullo, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
  3. ↑ Steigerwald, Bill (2009-03-15). "My last words ... - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review". Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. Retrieved 2018-03-22.



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