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A former Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist who worked for several newspapers and wrote two acclaimed non-fiction bestsellers, 'Friday Night Lights' (as H.G. Bissinger) and 'A Prayer for the City.'

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His mother, Eleanor Lebenthal Bissinger, is related to the family that founded and runs Wall Street's Lebenthal Fund.

Winner of the National Headliner Award, 1983 and co-recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in 1987, for series on the Philadelphia court system he wrote for the Philadelphia Inquirer.

Graduate of University of Pennsylvania, B.A., 1976.

Previous newspaper experience includes stints on Norfolk, Virginia's Ledger-Star, 1976-78, St. Paul's Pioneer Press Dispatch, Minnesota, 1978-81; investigative reporter at Chicago Tribune, Illinois, and reporter, then editor at the Inquirer, 1981-88.

Has three sons, H.G. Bissinger IIII, Zachery Stone Bissinger (twins), And Caleb St. John Macdonald Bissinger, b.1991

Awarded Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University, 1985-86.

Cousin of Peter Berg

He is also a contributing editor to Vanity Fair magazine.

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