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Larry Bleiberg

Writer, Editor, Traveler

BIO

Larry Bleiberg Mount Kanchenjunga, India

Whether it’s sand-boarding down dunes in Peru or marching in a Mardi Gras parade, Larry Bleiberg throws himself into his work, bringing passion, polish, and professionalism to travel and lifestyles journalism.

 

The award-winning writer has served on a Pulitzer Prize team, is an nine-time Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Award winner, and was honored for editing the best newspaper travel section in North America.

He is also a Past President of the Society of American Travel Writers.

Larry writes for the Washington Post, BBC, National GeographicAARP, AAA Publications, Southbound, USA Today, Afar, and many others.

He helped produce several National Geographic books, and created CivilRightsTravel.com .

He has also judged international, national and regional journalism contests.

A former editor with Time Inc.'s Coastal Living and Travel Editor of The Dallas Morning News, Larry's happiest when chasing his next story.

 

 

Bio

FEATURED WORK

Is this the summer of bad tourists?

Why this season of misbehaving travelers might be a good thing

BBC Travel

How Sydney turned its harbor bridge into a bucket list adventure

National Geographic Traveler

Atlanta's Unexpected Civil Rights Museum: Its airport

The Washington Post

U.S. Travel Association

IPW Award

Recent Work

SELECTED CLIPS

The Mighty Hooch: Rafters splash down the Chattahoochee River on the world's longest urban white-water course,

Alabama Journey, March/April 2015 

EJI Memorial.jpg

MANDY FERNANDEZ, SEATTLE DAILY

GEMMA NASHVILLE, BOOKS IN REVIEW

Prehistoric cave art meticulously re-created in the French Alps,

Dallas Morning News, October 24, 2015

Clips

Miniature golf masterpiece

A father-son trip reveals the South's best course

Garden & Gun

2023 Lowell Thomas Winner

The world's weirdest border

Culture and geography intersect on Europe's Vennbahn bike path

BBC Travel

The clock that changed the meaning of time 

BBC Travel

Travel Classics Award Winner

The Powerful Lynching Memorial 

Why Now Is the Time to Visit Montgomery, Alabama

Afar.com

Love and Cable Cars

A couple finds the path forward on a hike through the Swiss Alps

Delta Sky

The world's weirdest border

Culture and geography intersect on Europe's Vennbahn bike path

BBC Travel

Love and Cable Cars

A couple finds the path forward on a hike through the Swiss Alps

Delta Sky

The moments that made me love flying: What it brings to our lives is the stuff of dreams

 BBC Travel

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