Philip L Fradkin

Philip L. Fradkin is the author of eight critically acclaimed nonfiction books on the American West and Alaska. At the "Los Angeles Times" he shared a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the Watts racial conflict, was a correspondent in Vietnam, and was the newspaper's first environmental writer. Fradkin was the assistant secretary of the California Resources Agency and western editor of "Audubon" magazine. He has taught writing courses at the University of California at Berkeley, where he is a...See more

Philip L. Fradkin is the author of eight critically acclaimed nonfiction books on the American West and Alaska. At the "Los Angeles Times" he shared a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the Watts racial conflict, was a correspondent in Vietnam, and was the newspaper's first environmental writer. Fradkin was the assistant secretary of the California Resources Agency and western editor of "Audubon" magazine. He has taught writing courses at the University of California at Berkeley, where he is a consultant to the Bancroft Library, and a California history course at Stanford University. Fradkin's most recent book is "Wildest Alaska: Journeys of Great Peril in Lituya Bay." He lives on the coast north of San Francisco. See less