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In birthplace Georgia with grandfather, Colonel Frank Bacon, USMC (WWII, Korea), in 2009
At WNYC studios with Brian Lehrer, 2009
In New York
with Patrolmen's Benevolent Association
At Air America
Studios with wife Beth and
In New York with Mark O'Donnell, Tony Award-winning writer of "Hairspray", 2009
At 19th Precinct, 2009
At Barnes
& Noble Park Slope book signing with
With friends in Park Slope, Brooklyn 2009
At Police Academy graduation in 2002
Department ID card from 2004
With wife Beth, NYPD mascot "Officer Asphalt", and someone else's child at Police Academy Family Day in 2002
Mother, Wells, handcuffing father, Paul Sr., as depicted in "Bad Cop", New York, 2002
On rooftop in Harlem's 32nd Precinct, 2003
Teaching surf class, Maui, Hawaii, 2009
Pushing a student into a wave, Maui, Hawaii, 2009
Riding late-season south swell, Ka'anapali Point, Maui, 2008
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Author Biography
After a close brush with the World Trade Center attacks, Paul Bacon joined the NYPD, serving as a patrolman from 2002-2005 primarily in Harlem’s 28th and 32nd Precincts. His true police stories have appeared on NPR’s “This American Life,” John Hodgman’s “Little Gray Book Lecture Series,” and The Moth Mainstage (New York and New Haven). He currently lives in Maui, Hawaii, where he works as a surfing instructor and underwater photographer.
Previously a freelance writer and cartoonist, Paul has contributed to Cosmopolitan, The Dictionary of American History (Scribner), Inside.com, McSweeney’s, Mother Jones, PBS Online, Salon, San Francisco Examiner, and Wired. He also worked as a staff writer for Might magazine and Modern Humorist.
Prior to freelancing, Paul worked in communications, editing a corporate magazine for Iridium, Inc. (Washington, D.C.), producing broadcast news releases for Hill and Knowlton Public Affairs (Washington), and interning in the creative department at J. Walter Thompson Advertising (Denver).
Paul graduated with honors in journalism from the University of Colorado at Boulder, with a minor in sociology. While at Boulder, he was an active member of the CU Program Council for four years, founding a graphic design agency under its auspices. In his senior year, Paul was awarded the 1990 Nonie Lann Journalism Scholarship.
The son of a pilot and a flight attendant, Paul was all but conceived in motion. He has lived in 15 different cities and towns in every corner of the United States, and visited 34 countries on six continents. His hobbies include bicycling, surfing, hiking and freestyle snow skiing. He is a licensed scuba diving instructor and CPR/First Aid trainer. He also speaks Japanese, with three years in-country language exposure in Osaka and Tanegashima.
Paul's favorite books include: SIN KILLER by Larry McMurtry, WHITE NOISE by Don DeLillo, YOU GOTTA PLAY HURT by Dan Jenkins, EAST IS EAST by TC Boyle, MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors by Richard Hooker, THE GREAT SANTINI by Pat Conroy, A SCANNER DARKLY by Philip K. Dick, REQUIEM FOR A DREAM by Hubert Selby, HOLIDAYS IN HELL by PJ O'Rourke and THE PHANTOM TOLLBOOTH by Norton Juster.
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