Dick Lehr

About the Author

Dick Lehr, a professor of journalism at Boston University, is a former investigative reporter, legal affairs, and magazine writer for the Boston Globe, where he was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in investigative reporting. He is the author of The Fence: A Police Cover-up along Boston’s Racial Divide, and coauthor with Gerard O’Neill of the New York Times bestseller Black Mass: Whitey Bulger, the FBI, and a Devil’s Deal, and its sequel, Whitey: The Life of America’s Most Notorious Mob Boss. He lives outside Boston with his wife and four children.

Gerard O’Neill was the editor of the Boston Globe’s Spotlight Team, one of the nation’s top investigative reporting units and the inspiration for the Oscar–winning film Spotlight. A three-time recipient of the Pulitzer Prize, has also won the Hancock Award, the Loeb Award, and many others. With Dick Lehr, O’Neill also coauthored The Underboss: The Rise and Fall of a Mafia Family and Whitey: The Life of America’s Most Notorious Mob Boss. He died in 2019