Don Lattin
510-748-9803
don@donlattin.com

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Don Lattin is one of the nation's leading journalists covering alternative and mainstream religious movements and figures in America. He is the author of “Jesus Freaks - A True Story of Murder and Madness on the Evangelical Edge” (HarperOne 2007);“Following Our Bliss - How the Spiritual Ideals of the Sixties Shape Our Lives Today” (HarperSanFrancisco 2003): and is the co-author (with Richard Cimino) of “Shopping for Faith - American Religion in the New Millennium" (Jossey Bass 1998).

His work has appeared in dozens of U.S. magazines and newspapers, including the San Francisco Chronicle, where Don covered the religion beat for nearly two decades. He has also worked as a consultant and commentator for Dateline NBC; PrimeTime Live, Good Morning America and Nightline on ABC Television; Anderson Cooper 360 and American Morning on CNN; and Religion and Ethics News Weekly on PBS.

Lattin is currently working on a book for HarperCollins tentatively titled The Cambridge Quartet. It examines the lives and times of four men whose paths crossed in Cambridge, Massachusetts in the early 1960s -- Timothy Leary, Richard Alpert, Huston Smith and Andrew Weil.

Don also teaches religion writing at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley, where he holds a degree in sociology. He served as Managing Editor of the "God, Sex and Family" project for the “News21” program at UC Berkeley. For more information, go to www.newsinitiative.org.

Lattin is also a contributing writer for the “Encyclopedia of Love in World Religions” (ABC-CLIO, 2007); "Religion in America -- a Guide to the Major Faiths, Churches, Organizations and Issues" (The Reference Works, 2008); and the "Encyclopedia of Religion in America" (CQ Press, 2010).