David Lamb (journalist)

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David Lamb is an eight-time Pulitzer Prize nominee who has traveled the world for twenty-five years as a Los Angeles Times correspondent. He is the author of six books: The Africans, The Arabs: Journeys Beyond the Mirage, Stolen Season: A Journey Through America and Baseball's Minor Leagues, A Sense of Place: Listening to Americans, Over The Hills: A Midlife Escape Across America By Bicycle, and Vietnam, Now: A Reporter Returns. He has been a Nieman Fellow, an Alicia Peterson Fellow, a Pew Fellow and a writer-in-residence at the University of Southern California's School of Journalism. He is believed to be the only U.S. newspaper correspondent from the Vietnam War to later live in peacetime Hanoi, Vietnam.