Dick Lehr

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<p><strong>Dick Lehr </strong>is a professor of journalism at Boston University. He is the author of six previous works of nonfiction and a novel for young adults. Lehr coauthored the <em>New York Times </em>bestseller and Edgar Award Winning <em>Black Mass: Whitey Bulger, the FBI and a Devil’s Deal, </em>which became the basis of a Warner Bros. film of the same name. His most recent nonfiction book, <em>The Birth of a Movement: How Birth of a Nation Ignited The Battle for Civil Rights, </em>became the basis for a PBS/Independent Lens documentary. Two other books were Edgar Award finalists: <em>The Fence: A Police Cover-up Along Boston’s Racial Divide, </em>and <em>Judgment Ridge: The True Story Behind The Dartmouth Murders</em>. Lehr previously wrote for the <em>Boston Globe, </em>where he was a member of the Spotlight Team, a special projects reporter and a magazine writer. While at the <em>Globe </em>he was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in investigative reporting and won numerous national and local journalism awards. Lehr lives near Boston. </p>