William ecenbarger biography

Before he became a full-time freelance writer in 1981, William Ecenbarger was a reporter for the Philadelphia Inquirer, and was part of an Inquirer team that won the 1980 Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of the Three Mile
Island nuclear accident.

In addition, he received the George Polk Award for a series of articles outlining abuses in the Pennsylvania Legislature.  

He is a former contributing editor to Reader’s
Digest international editions.

He is the  author of Walkin’ the Line, a  travel-history about the Mason-Dixon Line published in 2001, Glory by the Wayside: The Old Churches of Hawaii, a photo-essay book published in  2008, Kids for Cash, an account  of a judicial scandal in Pennsylvania published in 2012, and Pennsylvania Stories: Well Told, a collection of magazine articles published in 2017.

He is co-author of Catching Lightning in a Bottle:How Mer