Christopher Goffard is a novelist, podcaster and journalist who has been a staff writer at the Los Angeles Times for the last 15 years. For most of his career he has reported on crime and courts, sometimes mining the experience for fiction. His novel Snitch Jacket was a finalist for the Edgar Award for Best First Novel in 2008. He shared in the Pulitzer Prize for the Times’ coverage of the Bell scandal, and has twice been a Pulitzer finalist for feature writing. He wrote and hosted two Number One podcasts, Dirty John (which became a TV series) and Detective Trapp. His third podcast, The Trials of Frank Carson, will premier this spring. He has published two books of nonfiction, You Will See Fire: A Search for Justice in Kenya, and Dirty John and Other True Stories of Outlaws and Outsiders, which collects much of his best journalism.

An Afternoon with Pulitzer Prize Winning Journalist and Author Christopher Goffard