Joan Lownds

Joan Lownds has been an award-winning reporter for The Greenwich Citizen, The Litchfield County Times, The New Haven Advocate, and other Connecticut newspapers and magazines. She covered the honeymoon cruise murder since it broke. She was a reporter for the Greenwich Citizen when George Smith was murdered in July, 2005, and his homicide led her to investigate the unregulated, $40-billion a year cruise industry in a series of newspaper articles. These formed the basis of her first book, "Man Overboard: Inside the Honeymoon Cruise Murder." The book received high praise from such notables as former Secretary of State John Kerry.

Her second book, "The Dogs of Camelot: Stories of the Kennedy Canines" was published in May, 2018. The book was lauded by former White House Social Secretary Nancy Tuckerman and by the acclaimed author, Tommy Hays, who wrote: "The Dogs of Camelot" is a miraculous book, providing an unlikely yet endearing portrait of an almost mythic family whose humanity might be best shown through their profound connections with their beloved animals. (Tommy Hays, author of The Pleasure Was Mine)

Ms. Lownds has also worked for The New Haven Advocate, Fairfield Magazine, Wilton Magazine and The Yale Alumni Magazine. She was the first woman ever published in Baseball Digest, with a profile of legendary pitcher, Smoky Joe Wood, in 1981. She is currently at work on a novel.