Dan Barry (reporter)

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Dan Barry is a reporter for The New York Times. His column "About New York" appears on Wednesdays and Saturdays in the NY Region section of the paper. While working for the Providence Journal-Bulletin in 1994, Barry won the Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting after exposing corruption in the Rhode Island court system. He is a 1980 graduate of St. Bonaventure University. He was born and raised in Long Island, New York and lives in Maplewood, New Jersey. He has written a memoir called "Pull Me Up", telling of growing up in an Irish-American family headed by a Galway-born mother and a father who believed in space aliens.

He was also a Nominated Finalist for the 2006 Journalism Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing for his coverage of post-hurricane New Orleans and for his unique coverage of life in New York City.

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New York Times biography of Dan Barry Dan Barry's final "About New York" column ran Nov. 15, 2006.