Sydney H. Schanberg

Sydney Schanberg was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his New York Times coverage of the fall of Cambodia to the Khmer Rouge in 1975. But his reporting on Cambodia is largely known from "The Killing Fields," the Academy Award-winning film starring Sam Waterston as Schanberg, which was based on his New York Times article chronicling the search for his captured Cambodian colleague Dith Pran and Pran's escape to freedom in 1979.

After returning from Asia, Schanberg was named NY Times Metropolitan Editor and then became an Op-Ed columnist, writing about New York City. In 1985, Schanberg left The Times and spent nine years as an Op-Ed columnist for New York Newsday. He then worked as head of investigations for APBNews.com and later wrote award-winning press criticism at The Village Voice.

Beyond the Killing Fields (Potomac Books, March 2010) is his first book -- an anthology of his reporting and commentary about wars in Bangladesh, Vietnam, Cambodia and Iraq.

Please visit the book's website at http://www.beyondthekillingfields.com