About the Author
Robert Loerzel
was born in Anchorage, Alaska, where he
lived the first nine years of his life. He spent the later part of his childhood in Onarga, a
small town in central Illinois, then attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
where he graduated
with a bachelor's degree in journalism. Loerzel now lives in the
suburbs of Chicago. He has worked for Pioneer Press Newspapers
since 1989, first as a news reporter then later as a news editor. He
currently edits and writes for the arts and
entertainment section. He has received numerous awards from the Illinois Press
Association, the Chicago Headline Club, and other press organizations for
investigative reporting, feature stories, and his editing work. He runs this Web site as well as
www.robertloerzel.com, which features samples of his journalism,
fiction and artwork.
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Photo © 2002 H. Rick Bamman.
