Bill Minutaglio

Minutaglio has written for many publications, authored several books, and been inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters.

His books include: "First Son: George W. Bush & The Bush Family Dynasty," (Times Books); "City on Fire: The Explosion That Devastated A Texas Town and Ignited A Historic Legal Battle," (HarperCollins); "The President's Counselor: The Rise To Power of Alberto Gonzales," (HarperCollins). "City on Fire" is "one of the finest books ever written about Texas," according to The Texas Observer. Esquire magazine named it, along with works by Ernest Hemingway and others, among the greatest tales of survival ever written.

His work is included in these anthologies: "Literary Austin," edited by Don Graham, the J. Frank Dobie Regents Professor of American & English Literature at the University of Texas at Austin; "Merchants of Misery: How Corporate America Profits From Poverty"; "November 22: The Day Remembered"; "The Day JFK Died"; "Echoes of Texas Football: The Greatest Stories Ever Told." He is co-author of "The Hidden City," about a community where Jack Ruby and Lee Harvey Oswald lived. He is co-author of "Locker Room Mojo," about the nature of superstition in sports.

Minutaglio worked for the Abilene Reporter-News, San Antonio Express-News and Houston Chronicle. He spent 18 years at The Dallas Morning News. He covered strife in Central America, the Soviet Union and the Philippines. He traveled with the Sandinistas, reported on the tearing down of the Berlin Wall and filed stories about the end of the Marcos regime in Manila. He was a national correspondent for The Sporting News and TALK, where he worked for editor Tina Brown. He was a bureau chief for People, overseeing 30 full-time and part-time reporters who covered breaking news stories, particularly Hurricane Katrina.

His work has appeared in The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Esquire, Outside, Details, Los Angeles Times, New York Times and Scotland on Sunday. He has written encyclopedia entries for Encarta and World Book on George W. Bush and others. He and Julian Bond were asked to write essays for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution commemorating the assassination of President Kennedy.

He has been interviewed by Brian Williams, Tom Brokaw, Peter Jennings, Katie Couric, Dan Rather, Judy Woodruff, Bernard Shaw, Charlie Rose and Terry Gross. He has been on The Today Show and NPR's "Fresh Air." His Bush biography was called "excellent" by The New York Review of Books and The New Republic. His biography of Gonzales was called "fascinating" by The New York Times and "chilling" by the San Francisco Chronicle. The Washington Post said "City on Fire" was "a remarkable re-creation...a terrific nonfiction work that has the narrative force of an adventure novel." The Baltimore Sun compared his writing to that of Tom Wolfe. His biography of Bush has been published in China. "City On Fire" was optioned by actor Tom Cruise.

His work has been recognized by The National Association of Black Journalists, National Conference of Christians and Jews, University of Missouri, National Headliners. His work has been listed in three editions of the "Best American Sports Writing" anthologies.

Minutaglio taught Narrative Story Telling at the University of Texas and has spoken at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, Johns Hopkins University, St. Edward's University and Concordia University. He has a B.A. from Columbia College and an M.S. from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He studied for a year at the Columbia University School of International Affairs. He interned at the United Nations and worked for the U.S. Department of Agriculture monitoring free food programs in inner-city neighborhoods in New York City.