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John Penner

Staff Writer

John Penner has been writing and editing for the L.A. Times for three decades. A graduate of Cal State Long Beach, he also attended USC’s Graduate School of Film and Television and studied playwriting in Edward Albee’s master class at the University of Houston. He has lived and worked as a freelance journalist in Prague, after Czechoslovakia’s Velvet Revolution and coinciding with the election that resulted in the country splitting in two. Nowadays he is a copy editor on the Foreign and National Desk who writes occasionally about film, literature and theater. In 2021, he won the L.A. Press Club National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Award for Online Personality Profile, TV/Film Personalities, for his article “Milos Forman, Ivan Passer and their 73-Year Friendship.”

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