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Podcast: True Crime Uncensored with Burl Barer and Mark Boyer
Episode: DENNIS MCDOUGAL -- BEST SELLING AUTHOR OF TRUE CRIME CLASSIC "MOTHERS DAY" AND THE REVELATORY BIO OF BOB DYLAN AND MORE....
Description: Before he began writing books and film, McDougal was a staff writer covering movies and media for the Los Angeles Times, Â TV Guide and the New York Times. A UCLA graduate, McDougal earned a B.A. and an M.A. in English and journalism at UCLA. IN 1981, he was awarded a John S. Knight Fellowship at Stanford University and spent a year teaching and studying in Palo Alto, Japan and Canada. Over a career spanning nearly half a century, his journalism has won over fifty honors, including the National Headliners and George Peabody Award.A contributing writer with TV G...