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Dick Lehr is a former reporter for the Boston Globe (1983-2003). In 1991-1992 he was a John S. Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University. Lehr was a Pulitzer finalist for investigative reporting. He won both the Hancock and Loeb awards. Currently, he is a professor of journalism at Boston University and codirector of an investigative reporting clinic. He and Gerald O'Neill are co-authors of Whitey: The Life of America's Most Notorious Mob Boss (2013). His other works include The Fence: A Police Cover-up Along Boston's Racial Dividemost (2010), Birth of a Nation: How a Legendary Filmmaker and a Crusading Editor Reignited America's Civil War (2014), The Under Boss: The Rise and fall of a Mafia Family (1989), and Judgement Ridge: The True Story Behind the Dartmouth Murders (2003) with Mitchell Zuckoff. He lives outside Boston with his wife and four children.