Al Pessin
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Al Pessin

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Al Pessin is a former member of the White House and Pentagon press corps, a 15-year foreign correspondent, and a multi-award-winning author and playwright. His writing has won a Florida Book Award and six Royal Palm Literary Awards, as well as other recognition. All of Al's novels build on his decades of experience covering the highest echelons of Washington, as well as some of the world’s most desperate conflicts and most hopeful and inspiring moments. As a correspondent for Voice of America, Al was on the scene in Afghanistan and Iraq, at Southeast Asian refugee camps, the Guantanamo Bay Detention Center, the rally where Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated, and along Israeli streets devastated by terrorist bombs. He also reported to the world about pro-democracy uprisings in Beijing, Kyiv, Cairo, and Manila, as well as hope-filled elections in Egypt, Gaza, and Libya, among other places, indeed including the United States. Al was expelled from China in 1989 for his coverage of the Tiananmen Massacre, accused of “illegal news gathering” and “fomenting counterrevolutionary rebellion.” Among other honors, he was named Communicator of the Year for that coverage. In addition to Washington, Al was posted to Hong Kong, Islamabad, Beijing, Jerusalem, London and New York. He has published commentaries in several outlets, including the Los Angeles Times, the South Florida Sun Sentinel, Politico, and DefenseOne. Al blogged on writing for the Florida Writers Association, and his work has appeared in Writers Digest, Mystery Scene and other publications. And he taught graduate-level journalism as an adjunct at Northwestern University, his alma mater. Al also wrote the two-act farce Murder at the Butcher's which won Play of the Year at the Royal Palm Literary Awards and had four sold-out performances in its premiere run in 2019. Al has led writing seminars for Writers Digest, BookFest, Broward County Libraries, Florida WritersCon, and at many other online and in-person venues. In 2023, he was the keynote speaker at the Book Expo of Central Florida. Al grew up in Michigan, where much of Body Man's action happens. He now lives in Florida.
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