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Patrick Range McDonald
Author and journalist
ABOUT
Patrick Range McDonald is a best-selling author, award-winning journalist, and activist. Through his longtime work in journalism and activism, and through his extensive traveling around the world, McDonald holds a unique understanding of life, power, and how the world operates. It informs all his writing.
McDonald's investigative reporting earned him numerous honors, including “Journalist of the Year” and "Best News Feature" from the Los Angeles Press Club and the national “Public Service” award from the Association of Alternative Newsmedia. He also co-wrote the best-selling memoir of former Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riodan and wrote an acclaimed book about AIDS Healthcare Foundation, the world's largest HIV/AIDS nonprofit.
He is currently the advocacy journalist for Housing Is A Human Right, one of the leading housing justice organizations in the United States. For his work, McDonald received the "Best Activism Journalism" award from the Los Angeles Press Club.
He also founded Letters From Over Here and MacDomhnall's at Substack. His ground-breaking essay on the artist Jean-Michel Basquiat won second place for the "Best Visual Arts/Design/Architecture Feature" from the Los Angeles Press Club.
BOOKS
McDonald is the author of Righteous Rebels: AIDS Healthcare Foundation's Crusade to Change the World and co-writer of Richard J. Riordan's memoir The Mayor: How I Turned Around Los Angeles After Riots, an Earthquake and the O.J. Simpson Murder Trial. The memoir was a New York Times and Los Angeles Times bestseller.
