Lawrence Light

Lawrence Light is an award-winning financial journalist, who now works as the markets editor at Chief Investment Officer magazine. He also has been an editor and writer for CBS Moneywatch, investing editor of the Wall Street Journal, finance editor of Forbes and Money, and the corporate finance reporter for Business Week, where he was part of the team that won the National Magazine Award. Before getting into finance, he was a police reporter at the Long Island daily Newsday, where he was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.

Larry is the former executive vice president of Mystery Writers of America, where he founded MWA University, a daylong program teaching craft around the nation. Larry is now MWA’s treasurer and a national board member. He has been an Edgar judge several times, and most recently served as chief judge for PBOs.

He is a lieutenant colonel in the Army Reserve and has been deployed around the world. He lives in New York City.

With David Hagberg, Larry is the coauthor of Crash.