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Carol Pogash's book, Seduced by Madness, will be published June 1, 2007. The book received a starred review from Publishers Weekly which called it "a triumph...mesmerizing and riveting."
Carol has been a newspaper reporter, columnist, TV reporter, magazine writer, editor and author. She currently works as a freelancer, mostly for The New York Times, where her stories run in the national news, arts & leisure, sports, and op-ed sections.
Her news stories and features also have run in the Los Angeles
Times, The Washington Post, Newsday, The Philadelphia Inquirer, American Journalism Review and Working Woman Magazine. "60 Minutes" has produced three of her stories.
Her Op-Ed pieces have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, The San Jose Mercury and The San Francisco Chronicle.
Carol's book, "As Real As It Gets: The Life of a Hospital at the
Center Of the AIDS Epidemic" was a Bay Area bestseller. It received
only rave reviews including a starred review from Publishers Weekly, and was "highly recommended" by Library Journal.
In his book, "Dianne Feinstein: Never Let Them See You Cry,"
author Jerry Roberts praised Carol "for her insights and exceptional
reporting." In "The Last Best Thing," Pat Dillon's satire about Silicon Valley, he writes in his acknowledgments that Carol's "wit was a
great well for me." And the late Randy Shilts wrote that "Anyone
who reads a newspaper in San Francisco knows Carol Pogash as
one of the city's most incisive and lucid newspaper reporters - she
can write the pants off just about anybody in town."
Ever since the Symbionese Liberation Army kidnapped her boss's
daughter, Patty Hearst, Carol has covered the leading California
stories of our time. She's written about the start of the AIDS
epidemic and the unfolding BALCO scandal and everything in
between. Carol relies on an extensive network of contacts who
feed her stories from Boonville to the people's republic of Berkeley.
She began her career as a slightly nervous on-air reporter for
KQED's Newsroom, San Francisco's once-popular show of print
journalists who talked the news. She migrated to
print where she worked for more than a dozen years at The San
Francisco Examiner, covering fires, murders and the Chinese New
Year's Parade -- more than once. While at the Examiner, she wrote
a biweekly slice-of-life column, deadline news, features and cover stories for the Sunday magazine.
In 2000, Carol became senior editor at Forbes ASAP, the
technology magazine. She remained there for two years before
starting to write for the Los Angeles Times where she covered
activists disrobing for peace and Mayor Jerry Brown walking his dog Dharma down Oakland's drug-infested alleyways.
In late 2003, she began contributing stories to The New York
Times where she's written about such diverse subjects as a liberal
town's refusal to shelter the homeless on winter nights and a
museum exhibit on Vietnam that still arouses anger 40 years later.
She's also written about a secret a 60-year-old African American from Choctaw County, Alabama, held for decades: that in 1962 his father was killed because the son had refused to say "sir" to a white man, and about a book by documentary photographer Sebastio Salgado that took 20 years to
find a publisher.
Carol grew up in suburban New Jersey. She holds a B.A. from Chatham College in Pittsburgh, PA. and an M.A. in American government from Georgetown University.
She lives in the East Bay with her family, their hyper dog and
mellow cats.
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