Paul Grondahl

Paul Grondahl is an award-winning reporter for the Albany Times Union, where his in-depth articles have won numerous local, state and national journalism awards. His assignments have taken him from the Arctic to Antarctica; Northern Ireland to sub-Saharan Africa. He covered the terrorist attacks on the Twin Towers from Ground Zero on 9/11 and reported on the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. Learn more about his writing projects at www.paulgrondahl.com.

He is the author of several books, including the critically acclaimed "Mayor Corning: Albany Icon, Albany Enigma" and "I Rose like a Rocket: The Political Education of Theodore Roosevelt." He was born in 1959 in Tacoma, Wash. and earned a bachelor's degree in English literature from the University of Puget Sound and a master's in English literature from the University at Albany. He has appeared on C-SPAN's "About Books" and has been named Author of the Year by the Albany Public Library and Guilderland Public Library. He is an adjunct professor in the Africana Studies Department at UAlbany, where he teaches a popular course titled "Culture, Diversity & the Human Condition."