Bill Steigerwald

{{Short description|American author and journalist}}

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Bill Steigerwald is a Pittsburgh-born author and journalist who worked as an editor and writer/reporter/columnist for the Los Angeles Times in the 1980s, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in the 1990s and the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review in the 2000s. Hundreds of his Q&A interviews and libertarian op-ed columns written for the Pittsburgh Trib were nationally syndicated in the 2000s by CagleCartoons.com.{{Cite web|url=http://es.caglecartoons.com/archivecolumnist.asp?ColumnistID=%7B30A7033B-89B2-4709-91EF-E84B15D53D43%7D|title=CagleCartoons.com - Columnist Bio for Bill Steigerwald|website=es.caglecartoons.com}} His free-lance articles and commentaries have appeared in major newspapers in the USA and in magazines like Reason.{{Cite web|url=https://reason.com/people/bill-steigerwald|title=Bill Steigerwald|date=27 September 2018 }}

In 2009 he retired from daily newspaper work to focus on writing books.{{Cite news |url=http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/opinion/columnists/steigerwald/s_615999.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091125194912/http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/opinion/columnists/steigerwald/s_615999.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2009-11-25 |title=My last words ... - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review |last=Steigerwald |first=Bill |date=2009-03-15 |work=Pittsburgh Tribune-Review |access-date=2018-03-22}} Many of his feature articles, op-ed pieces and newspaper Q&As with celebrities, politicians and authors are archived with recent writings at Clips & Q&As.{{Cite web|url=https://clips.substack.com/}}

His self-published Dogging Steinbeck: Discovering America and Exposing The Truth About Travels with Charley,{{cite news|url=https://www.amazon.com/Dogging-Steinbeck-Steinbecks-America-ebook/dp/B00A6X9ZR0|title=Dogging Steinbeck: Discovering America and Exposing the Truth about 'Travels with Charley' |date=16 January 2014 |publisher=Fifty Fifty Books }} carefully retraced the 10,000-mile road trip around the USA that author John Steinbeck made in 1960 for his nonfiction classic Travels with Charley. Steigerwald's research in libraries and on his own 11,276-mile road trip in 2010 proved that Steinbeck and his editors at The Viking Press had significantly fictionalized the account of his iconic journey.

Steigerwald's 2017 history book 30 Days a Black Man{{cite news|isbn=978-1493026180|title=30 Days a Black Man: The Forgotten Story that Exposed the Jim Crow South|last1=Steigerwald|first1=Bill|year=2017}} tells the forgotten story of Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reporter Ray Sprigle's undercover mission into the Jim Crow South in 1948.{{cite news|last=Sciullo|first=Maria|title=Ray Sprigle's journey in '30 Days A Black Man'|date=June 14, 2017|work=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette}}

Born in 1947, Bill Steigerwald is the oldest member of the Pittsburgh multimedia family that includes his TV sports brothers John Steigerwald (formerly of KDKA-TV) and Paul Steigerwald (former radio and TV play-by-play announcer of the Pittsburgh Penguins) and Dan Steigerwald (aka, Danny Stag, lead guitarist for the hard-rock band Kingdom Come). Bill currently lives in Bethany, WV.