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Lawrence Lanahan has worked in radio and print journalism for two decades, including five years producing for WYPR, Baltimore's NPR station. At WYPR, he won a duPont Award for "The Lines Between Us," a year-long multimedia series about inequality.
The New Press released Lanahan's first nonfiction book, The Lines Between Us: Two Families and a Quest to Cross Baltimore's Racial Divide in 2019.
Lanahan has master's degrees in sociology from American University and in journalism from Columbia University, and he teaches communication at Loyola University of Maryland. He writes songs and performs in Baltimore, sometimes with the bands Glad Pulses and Disappearing Ink. Lanahan lives in Baltimore with his wife and two sons.
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