Miriam Pawel
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Miriam Pawel

MIRIAM PAWEL is a journalist, author and independent scholar who has written extensively on California history. Her most recent book, "The Browns of California -- The Family Dynasty that Transformed a State and Shaped a Nation," traces the history of California through four generations of the family of Governors Pat and Jerry Brown; it won a Gold Medal in the California Book Awards and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in history. She spent a year as a fellow at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies where she began work on "California Dreams - The Making and Remaking of the University of California," which will be published in the fall of 2026.

She has written extensively about agriculture, labor, and social movements, including two books, "The Union of Their Dreams: Power, Hope and Struggle in Cesar Chavez’s Farm Worker Movement," and "The Crusades of Cesar Chavez: A Biography," which won the 2015 Robert F. Kennedy Book Prize, the California Book Award, and was a National Book Critics Circle award finalist. Her work has been supported with fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, California Humanities, and the Alicia Patterson Foundation.

Before focusing on the second cut of history, she spent 25 years as an award-winning reporter and editor on both coasts, directing coverage that won Pulitzer prizes at Newsday and at the Los Angeles Times. In recent years, she has written for the opinion sections of the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times.
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