Lisa Pulitzer is a former correspondent for The New York Times. She is the author of more than a dozen non-fiction books in the areas of True Crime and Current Events. She has ghostwritten at least five hardcovers, among them a Number One New York Times bestseller about the Scott Peterson case. Her most recent book, Stolen Innocence, My Story of Growing up in a Polygamous Sect, Becoming a Teenage Bride, and Breaking Free of Warren Jeffs, written with former Fundamentalist Church of Latter Church Saints (FLDS) member Elissa Wall, was released by William Morrow in May 2008. In its first week, it topped Number Six on the New York Times bestseller list, sold more than 45,000 copies in its first two weeks on the market and is scheduled to be made into a film by the producer of Boys Don’t Cry.
Pulitzer also co-authored Daughters of Juarez: A True Story of Serial Murder South of the Border with Univision’s Teresa Rodriguez, which was published in both English and Spanish by Simon & Schuster.