Randall Fitzgerald

Randall Fitzgerald’s books have been pioneering explorations of a wide variety of topics, reflecting his diverse interests and an insatiable curiosity cultivated by many decades as a newspaper and magazine journalist.

As a roving editor for Reader’s Digest, he specialized in investigative and human interest stories. He also wrote investigative feature articles for The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal. worked for syndicated columnist Jack Anderson, and for Capitol Hill News Service, founded by consumer advocate Ralph Nader.

During the period 1978–80, he founded and coedited an international magazine, Second Look, devoted to an exploration of the origins of civilization, the nature of consciousness, and the search for other life in the universe. Contributors included science fiction authors Isaac Asimov and Stanislaw Lem, scientists Jacques Vallee, J. Allen Hynek, Sir Roger Penrose, Sir Fred Hoyle, and philosophers Colin Wilson and Buckminster Fuller.

Two of his books, Lucky You! (2004, Citadel/Kensington) and The Hundred-Year Lie (2006, Penguin/Dutton) were big Amazon.com sellers. Lucky You! became the first book to examine the link between intuition and luck in games of chance and was published in Spanish, Japanese, and Korean editions. The Hundred-Year Lie, published in China by Beijing University Press, continues to be a perennial seller. His most recent book was Alien in the Mirror: Extraterrestrial Contact Theories & Evidence, with a foreword by Jacques Vallee.

As a book ghostwriter and researcher for others, he has produced more than fifty books on a wide variety of subjects including exploratory science, medicine, self-help, memoirs, animal communication, ethics, addictions, and human psychology. Several of these books were New York Times bestsellers.

Fitzgerald has been a guest on ABC’s The View, The Oprah Winfrey Radio Show, Michael Smerconish’s show Smerconish, Court TV, CBS’s 48 Hours, NBC’s Today Show, C-SPAN, BBC and PBS Radio, and hundreds of other television and radio shows, including six appearances on the Coast to Coast AM radio show with George Noory.

He served as the media spokesperson for the one hundredth anniversary celebration of the founding of the city of Las Vegas, on behalf of the Fremont Street Experience, a collection of ten casinos, including the Golden Nugget, along with the city of Las Vegas, giving live television interviews to dozens of local television stations nationwide.