Dick Lehr is a professor of journalism at Boston University. From 1985 to 2003, he was a reporter at the Boston Globe, where he was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in investigative reporting and won numerous regional and national journalism awards. He served as the Globe's legal affairs reporter, magazine and feature writer, and as a longtime member of the newspaper's investigative reporting unit, the Spotlight Team. Before that, Lehr, who is also an attorney, was a reporter at the Hartford Courant. Lehr is the author of The Fence: A Police Cover-up Along Boston's Racial Divide, a nonfiction narrative about the worst known case of police brutality in Boston, which was an Edgar Award finalist for best nonfiction. He is coauthor of the New York Times bestseller and Edgar Award winner Black Mass: Whitey Bulger, the FBI and a Devil's Deal, and its sequel, Whitey: The Life of America's Most Notorious Mob Boss. His most recent book is The Birth of a Nation: How a Legendary Filmmaker and a Crusading Editor Reignited America's Civil War. Lehr was a John S. Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University in 1991-92. He lives outside Boston with his wife and four children.

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Lehr on NPR about The Birth of a Nation