Thomas Curwen is an award-winning staff writer for the Los Angeles Times, where he has worked as editor of the Outdoors section, deputy editor of the Book Review and an editor at large for features. In 2023, his story about a young man’s 10-year struggle with schizophrenia won a Sigma Delta Chi Award and Bronze Medallion by the Society of Professional Journalists, as well as third place for Best American Newspaper Narratives by the Mayborn School of Journalism. In 2020, he received the Meyer Berger Award from Columbia Journalism School for distinguished human interest reporting for a series of stories that followed eight residents of a homeless encampment into housing in South Los Angeles. In 2016, he was part of the team of Times reporters who won a Pulitzer for their work covering a terrorist attack in San Bernardino, and in 2008 he was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize for his story about a father and daughter who were attacked by a grizzly bear in Montana. He has received a Rosalynn Carter Fellowship for mental health journalism and was honored by the Academy of American Poets.
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Los Angeles is well-versed in deception. Bring water to the desert, and everything will turn green.
Oct. 3, 2024
Screens throughout the airport will soon invite people to read a banned book by using a QR code to get a temporary library card.
Sept. 24, 2024
David Lin, 68, had received a life sentence for contract fraud related to his fundraising to build a church in China. His family and the State Department denied the charge.
Sept. 17, 2024
Senate Bill 1297, passed with bipartisan support and now waiting for Gov. Gavin Newsom’s signature, will allow the city of Malibu to install five camera systems to monitor the speed of drivers on a dangerous stretch of Pacific Coast Highway
Aug. 31, 2024
Some urbanists believe this type of development is unavoidable if Los Angeles is to create more housing in a region where buildable land is scarce and expensive.
Aug. 28, 2024
Like a meadow in a dark forest, the Christian Science church is a bulwark in a neighborhood where crime and homelessness, addiction and despair are often on display.
Aug. 21, 2024
Once an immigrant hub, this vibrant downtown district is a tourist destination where a 121-year-old mochi shop co-exists with sneaker shops.
Aug. 2, 2024
Don Kohan opened Cleaners Depot in 2003 when the ground floor was bustling with a florist, a stationery store, a restaurant and a bank. One by one they fell. The last major tenant moved out during the pandemic.
July 12, 2024
The idea sounded crazy. But a California man decided to test himself. Could he cross the Atlantic in a sailboat no bigger than a pickup truck?
June 26, 2024
The Post fire by late Sunday had reached nearly 15,000 acres. In Sonoma County, a separate blaze tore through an unknown number of structures.
June 17, 2024