About

Dick Lehr, a professor of journalism at Boston University, is the author of eight previous works of nonfiction and fiction, including the New York Times bestseller Black Mass: Whitey Bulger, the FBI and a Devil’s Deal, which became the basis of the Warner Bros. film of the same name.

His nonfiction book, The Birth of a Movement: How Birth of a Nation Ignited The Battle for Civil Rights, became the basis of a PBS/Independent Lens documentary. Lehr was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in investigative reporting as a member of the Boston Globe’s Spotlight Team. His honors include the Edgar Award for Nonfiction, the Associated Press Managing Editors Public Service Award, and the
National Association of Black Journalists’ Enterprise Reporting Award. His work has appeared in The Atlantic, The Conversation, The Chicago Tribune and numerous other publications. He was a Visiting Journalist at the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism at Brandeis University and a John S. Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University. He lives outside Boston.