Pittsburgh native Bill Steigerwald was a writer, columnist and editor at the Los Angeles Times in the 1980s, the Post-Gazette in the 1990s and the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review in the 2000s. Hundreds of his stories and interviews are archived at his substack Clips and Q&As -- The Steigerwald Post. He is the author of 30 Days a Black Man, which retells the true story of Pittsburgh Post-Gazette star reporter Ray Sprigle's undercover mission through the Jim Crow South in 1948. He also wrote Dogging Steinbeck, which exposed the truth about the fictions and lies in Travels With Charley and celebrated Flyover America and its people. And in 2022 he published Grandpa Bear Goes to Washington, a satirical kids book for all ages that all polar bears and lovers of freedom will like.