Dennis McDougal

With the publication of OPERATION WHITE RABBIT: LSD, the DEA and the Fate of the Acid King (Skyhorse Publishing, May, 2020), Dennis McDougal has authored over a dozen biographies, true crime sagas and novels as well as hundreds of newspaper and magazine articles in a career that has spanned five decades.

THE LAST MOGUL is being developed as TV miniseries starring Jonah Hill as Mob lawyer Sidney Korshak and BLOOD COLD is under option by Mad Dog Films as a directing project for Elizabeth Banks. He is coproducing a Rodney King documentary with Revelations Productions. While many might call it an oxymoron, he is currently at work on a contemporary history of the seamy side of Las Vegas.

Before he began covering movies and media for the Los Angeles Times and the New York Times, McDougal worked as a staff writer at dailies in Riverside and Long Beach, California. A UCLA graduate, McDougal holds a Bachelor's in English and a Master's in Journalism. He was awarded a John S. Knight Fellowship at Stanford University and spent a year teaching and studying in Palo Alto, Japan and Canada. Over the years, his journalism has won over 50 honors, including the National Headliners and George Peabody Award. He was a producer for CNN during the O.J. Simpson murder trial and co-produced "Inventing L.A.: The Chandlers and Their Times" (2009) for PBS.

McDougal has lectured in journalism and creative writing at UCLA, Stanford, and the California State Universities at Fullerton and Long Beach. He and his wife, Sharon, live near Memphis, Tennessee, have five children, and 15 grandchildren.