Bill Steigerwald – Ghostwriter

I'm a veteran print journalist with a strong narrative touch who's looking for interesting and challenging freelance/ghostwriting opportunities anywhere on the globe. After writing thousands of articles and opinion columns for the Los Angeles Times and two Pittsburgh dailies from 1979 to 2009, I've published two highly readable nonfiction books of my own. 'Dogging Steinbeck' (2013) made international news by exposing the fictions and lies John Steinbeck put into his iconic 1962 "nonfiction" best-seller 'Travels With Charley.' My 2017 Lyons Press book '30 Days a Black Man' retells the historic but forgotten true story of an undercover journalism mission into the Jim Crow South in 1948 by a white reporter pretending to be black. Since 2015 I've ghostwritten a nationally syndicated column for a well-known conservative political figure. I've also helped two business executives write their autobiographies and wrote a book-for-hire for a major natural gas exploration and development company. I can write a book proposal that will impress your agent or improve your writing without destroying your voice or point of view. I'm a careful, fact-loving generalist who knows how to take highly specialized or esoteric information and make it appealing and interesting to the average reader.