Patti Hartigan

Patti Hartigan is an award-winning journalist. As a staff member for the Boston Globe, she served as arts reporter and drama critic, along with a stint as cyber-culture columnist during the early days of the Internet. She was an inaugural fellow in the Pew Charitable Trust National Arts Journalism Program and spent a year researching inner-city arts organizations in Los Angeles. She explored racial inequity in the art word in her award-winning 1991 Globe page-one series, The Fine Arts: A World without Color. She spent five years researching August Wilson: A Life, the first authoritative biography of the great playwright who was one of the most important voices of the late 20th century and who left a lasting influence on American theater. The proud mother of three college-age children and companion to two hilarious Labradoodles, she divides her time between the Boston area and Charlottesville, VA, where she is researching her next book.