Paul Grondahl

Paul Grondahl is an award-winning reporter at the Albany Times Union, where his feature articles and in-depth projects have won local, state, and national writing prizes. He has also written for a variety of publications, including The New York Times Book Review, Newsday, and numerous magazines. Grondahl, forty-five, is the author of Mayor Corning: Albany Icon, Albany Enigma, a political biography of the nation's longest-tenured mayor and a mythic figure in the vaunted Albany Democratic...See more

Paul Grondahl is an award-winning reporter at the Albany Times Union, where his feature articles and in-depth projects have won local, state, and national writing prizes. He has also written for a variety of publications, including The New York Times Book Review, Newsday, and numerous magazines. Grondahl, forty-five, is the author of Mayor Corning: Albany Icon, Albany Enigma, a political biography of the nation's longest-tenured mayor and a mythic figure in the vaunted Albany Democratic machine. The New York Times Book Review praised Grondahl's book as "a minor classic," and The New Yorker said it "evokes its subject with novelistic assurance." Grondahl lives in Guilderland, a suburb of Albany, with his wife and two children. See less