ABOUT
Lisa Pulitzer is an American author and journalist. Pulitzer is a former correspondent for The New York Times and a writer for the paper's Sunday Long Island section. She has written and/or collaborated on more than 55 non-fiction books, many of them topping The New York Times Best Seller list.
In her capacity as collaborator, she has worked on the memoirs of many high-profile personalities, from prosecutors to judges to celebrities. Of particular note are her collaborations with people who have escaped fundamentalist religion, including Jenna Miscavige Hill the former Scientologist, Lauren Drain the ex-member of Westboro Baptist Church and Elissa Wall who wrote about her experiences after leaving the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
She has reported on some of New York's most notorious cases: the Amy Fisher/Joey Buttafuoco story; the disappearance and search for ten-year-old Katie Beers; the Long Island Railroad massacre; the downing of TWA Flight 800; and the arrest and subsequent trial of New York State's infamous serial killer Joel Rifkin. Her coverage case of the Rifkin case inspired Crossing the Line: The True Story of Long Island Serial Killer Joel Rifkin written with journalist Joan Swirsky and published in 1994 by the Berkley Publishing Group. She is also the author of Crime on Deadline, Police Reporters Tell Their Most Unforgettable Stories, A Woman Scorned, The Shocking Real Life Case of Billionairess Killer Susan Cummings.
Pulitzer left journalism in 1998 to concentrate on writing books. Lisa teaches at Long Island University's Hutton House Lecture Series She also conducts private and semi-private writing classes via Zoom and works as a writing mentor/book doctor.