BRATTLEBORO — Pulitzer Prize winner Kevin Cullen, a longtime Boston Globe reporter and columnist, will speak about “Whitey Bulger and the Manhunt That Brought Him to Justice,” on Wednesday, Dec. 4, at 7 p.m., in the Main Room at Brooks Memorial Library, as part of the Vermont Humanities Council's First Wednesday series.
Cullen, whose been at the Globe since 1985, lived in the shadow, and sometimes in fear, of South Boston gangster Whitey Bulger, sentenced Nov. 14 to two consecutive life terms plus five years for his crimes. One of the first reporters to raise questions about Bulger's relationship with the FBI, Cullen tells the riveting story of the capture and trial of the most wanted criminal of his generation.
Currently a columnist for the Globe's Metro section, Cullen previously wrote for the Foreign desk and Spotlight team. He was a member of the 2003 investigative team that won a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the Catholic Church's sexual abuse scandal. A frequent commentator on NPR and the BBC, Cullen has won major journalism prizes including the Goldsmith Prize, the George Polk Award, and the Selden Ring Award.
He is co-author of the New York Times best-seller “Whitey Bulger: America's Most Wanted Gangster and the Manhunt That Brought Him to Justice” (W. W. Norton & Co.).