Eric Lichtblau

Natasha Sewell

Eric Lichtblau is a journalist and a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner. He served in the Washington bureau of The New York Times for 15 years, and reported for the Los Angeles Times for 15 years before that. He has also written for The New Yorker, Time, The Washington Post, USA Today, and others. He is the author of four nonfiction books, including the books he brings to the Festival, "American Reich," and "Return to the Reich: A Holocaust Refugee's Secret Mission to Defeat the Nazis." He lives outside Washington, D.C.

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Awards: Pulitzer Prize, Goldsmith Award, Silver Gavel Award

Extremism in a Post-Truth America

Extremism has saturated every corner of the nation. How did we get here, and why is it so difficult to fight these increasingly violent groups? Learn about the everyday heroes who are infiltrating these movements and exposing their plans while risking their own safety.

Integrated Learning Center Room 130 (Seats 143, Wheelchair accessible)  
Sat, Mar 14, 10:00 am - 10:55 am
Current Issues / Politics / Social Science
Signing area: Sales & Signing Area - Integrated Learning Center (following presentation)  

Panelists: Aaron Davis, Eric Lichtblau, Chris Mathias
Moderator: David Sadker

Homegrown Hate Crimes

Unfettered prejudice turns to murder in these tragic true crimes. Pulitzer Prize winner Eric Lichtblau and Edgar Award winner Elon Green discuss how prejudice escalates into violence, revealing chilling true stories of hate-fueled crimes in America.

Integrated Learning Center Room 130 (Seats 143, Wheelchair accessible)  
Sun, Mar 15, 2:30 pm - 3:25 pm
True Crime
Signing area: Sales & Signing Area - Integrated Learning Center (following presentation)  

Panelists: Elon Green, Eric Lichtblau
Moderator: Stephen Golden

Books:

American Reich

A Murder in Orange County, Neo-Nazis, and a New Age of Hate
Current Issues / Politics / Social Science
Little Brown
January 2026
ISBN 9780316564717
352 pages

Return to the Reich

A Holocaust Refugee's Secret Mission to Defeat the Nazis
Current Issues / Politics / Social Science
HarperCollins Publishers
September 2020
ISBN 9780358415152
320 pages