Larry Bleiberg
Writer, Editor, Traveler
BIO
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 eight-time Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Award winner, and was honored for editing the best newspaper travel section in North America.
He is Immediate Past President of the Society of American Travel Writers.
Larry writes for the Washington Post, BBC, AARP, AAA Publications, Southbound, USA Today, Afar, and many others.
He helped produce several National Geographic books, and created CivilRightsTravel.com. 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.
FEATURED WORK
Atlanta's Unexpected Civil Rights Museum: Its airport
The Washington Post
The Clock that Changed the Meaning of time
BBC Travel
Travel Classics Award Winner
Stuckey’s, the once-beloved road trip staple, tries to stage a comeback
The Washington Post
The Mighty Hooch: Rafters splash down the Chattahoochee River on the world's longest urban white-water course,
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GEMMA NASHVILLE, BOOKS IN REVIEW
Prehistoric cave art meticulously re-created in the French Alps,
SELECTED CLIPS
The Segregated Campground that was a Refuge for Black Travelers
Atlas Obscura
Take to the skies in a vintage biplane
AAA Explorer
CLIPS
Tiny Bubbles: Historic apple cider makes a sparkling comeback in Virginia, Tidewater Traveler, September/October 2015
The Mighty Hooch: Rafters splash down the Chattahoochee River on the world's longest urban white-water course,
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GEMMA NASHVILLE, BOOKS IN REVIEW
A brilliantly deceptive French Alps cave takes visitors into the stone age
Time Travelers: At the Grand Canyon, the inevitable passage of time draws a family together
Delta Sky
Switzerland's Valley of the Cable Cars: Hikers can take farmer's private gondolas, like an Uber of the Alps
BBC Travel
The moments that made me love flying: What it brings to our lives is the stuff of dreams
The US Highway that helped break segregation
BBC Travel
