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

Don Lattin is writing a book for Harper-Collins on a January 2005 murder/suicide that shed new light on the Children of God/Family International, one of the most controversial new religious movements to emerge from the spiritual turmoil of the 1960s and 1970s.

He is also a contributing writer for the upcoming Encyclopedia of Love in World
Religions published ABC- CLIO. Both books will be released in 2007.

Lattin also teaches an advanced reporting class at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California during the spring semester of 2007. The course is part of the Carnegie-Knight Initiative on the Future of Journalism Education. Go to www.newsinitiative.org to learn more about the program.

Don’s recent magazine work includes “Polygamy on Trial,” published November 19, 2006 by the San Francisco Chronicle Sunday Magazine. To see that piece, click Article.

Click to Read the article that inspired the book.