Alfred Lubrano

Award-winning Journalist and Author

Alfred Lubrano is an author, journalist and National Public Radio commentator. He is a feature writer on the staff of the Philadelphia Inquirer and has been an essayist for NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday since 1992. Lubrano is the author of the book, "Limbo: Blue-Collar Roots, White-Collar Dreams," published by Wiley in November 2003. In addition, his work has been anthologized in five different college-level textbooks, as well as the book, "Sons on Fathers," and the compilation entitled "Best Newspaper Writing, 1995." Also, his writing has appeared in GQ, Health and Smart Money magazines, as well as in the New York Times and on MSNBC.com.

Lubrano has won more than a dozen journalism awards, including three national reporting awards, among them the Sidney Hillman National Prize for reporting on social justice, the Columbia University Tobenkin Award for reporting that combats racism and the American Society of Newspaper Editors Award.

He has been a guest lecturer at various college- and graduate-level journalism programs, including the Columbia University School of Journalism, New York University, Bryn Mawr, the University of Pennsylvania and Ohio State University. Additionally, he was a featured speaker at the 1997 National Writers' Workshop, sponsored by The Poynter Institute and the Seattle Times.