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David Freed was born on 4 December, 1954 in Albany, Georgia, United States, is an Author. Discover David Freed's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is He in this year and how He spends money? Also learn how He earned most of networth at the age of 69 years old?
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David Freed Net Worth
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Freed is a licensed pilot, noting in the August 2013 issue of Air & Space that he owns and operates a Piper Cherokee built in 1965.
Freed has also written six mystery-thriller novels centered on a protagonist named Cordell Logan: Flat Spin (2012), Fangs Out (2013), Voodoo Ridge (2014), The Three-Nine Line (2015), Hot Start (2016) and The Kill Circle (2017). In each novel, Logan, a retired military assassin and fighter pilot turned flight instructor, is tasked with solving a new mystery. All of Freed's Cordell Logan novels are published by The Permanent Press.
Since 2011, when he wrote about fractional luxury jet ownership, Freed has been a regular contributor of feature-length stories for the magazine of the National Air & Space Museum, covering a broad range of topics. In August 2012, he wrote about Curiosity, NASA's most recent Mars rover. In December 2014, after a trip to Hanoi, Freed produced a story exploring what the Vietnam War was like for North Vietnamese soldiers who shot down American warplanes using Russian-built SA-2 rockets. SA http://www.airspacemag.com/military-aviation/missile-men-north-vietnam-180953375/ In 2016, he was named a contributing editor to the magazine.
In the May 2010 issue of The Atlantic, Freed reported on the plight of scientist Steven Hatfill who was investigated extensively by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) following anthrax attacks in 2001. Freed's article, "The Wrong Man," told the story of the FBI's efforts to track down individuals responsible for mailing anthrax powder to targets throughout the United States. Hartfill was targeted due to his work with the Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, his use of an antibiotic called Cipro useful in fending off anthrax and faulty investigating done by consultant Donald Wayne Foster. After six years of investigations and court proceedings, the FBI settled with Hatfill for $5.8 million after a U.S. District Court judge found no evidence that Hatfill was responsible for the anthrax attacks. Freed's account of the FBI investigation included extensive interviews with Hatfill, who had not provided his account with any publication prior to 2010. The article was one of the feature writing finalists for the 2011 National Magazine Awards from the American Society of Magazine Editors.
Freed, under the pseudonym Fred Grimes, wrote a humor book titled Dear Ernest and Julio: The Ordinary Guy's Search for the Extraordinary Job. The nonfiction work, published by St. Martin's Press in 1998, featured a series of application letters for odd jobs sent to real employers by Freed. Each letter details an unusual talent, skill set or anecdote that attracted a response from the recipient.
Freed wrote a humorous collection of job application letters and rejections in 1997 called "Dear Ernest and Julio: The Ordinary Guy's Search for the Extraordinary Job." Freed is also the author of six novels in the Cordell Logan series.
Freed shared the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Reporting with fellow writers at the newspaper for reportage on the Rodney King riots in 1992.
Freed worked as an investigative journalist with The Los Angeles Times in the 1980s and 1990s. He spent time reporting on Operation Desert Storm with assignments in Iraq, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. Freed wrote a series of articles starting in 1990 that highlighted flaws in Los Angeles County's criminal justice system, including overcrowded county jails and poor enforcement of lesser crimes. This series made Freed a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. Freed shared the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Reporting with fellow writers at the newspaper for reportage on the Rodney King riots in 1992.
Freed was born in Albany, Georgia and grew up in Colorado. After graduating from Colorado State University in 1976, Freed began his journalism career at the Colorado Springs Sun and the Rocky Mountain News in Denver in the 1980s. Both newspapers are no longer in operation.
Following the assassination in June 1976 of Arizona Republic investigative reporter Don Bolles, Freed became a member of a team of reporters known as the "Desert Rats" that convened in Phoenix to carry on Bolles' work.
David Freed (born December 4, 1954 in Albany, Georgia) is an American author, educator, journalist and screenwriter. Freed has written on criminal justice issues for The Los Angeles Times.