Joseph T. Hallinan
Journalist and author
Joseph T. Hallinan is a Chicago-based journalist and author who shared a Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting. He wrote Why We Make Mistakes.
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About Joseph T. Hallinan
Hallinan is an American journalist who has written for The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Chicago Tribune and the Sunday Times of London. He shared the 1991 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting with Susan M. Headden for a series on medical malpractice in Indiana, while working at The Indianapolis Star. He was also a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. His books include Going Up the River: Travels in a Prison Nation (2001), Why We Make Mistakes (2009) and Kidding Ourselves: The Hidden Power of Self-Deception (2014). Why We Make Mistakes was a Book-of-the-Month Club selection, has sold more than 100,000 copies in the US and has been translated into over a dozen languages. Hallinan has also taught at several colleges and universities, and he lives in Chicago with his family.