Mark Stein has worked for more than three decades as a reporter and editor at The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and Bloomberg News, specializing in long-form feature and investigative articles. He shared a 1993 Pulitzer Prize for reporting about 1992 riots in Los Angeles, and then cowrote a book, Understanding the Riots: Los Angeles Before and After the Rodney King Case. He also worked with Anthony Bianco on his 1996 book The Bully of Bentonville: How the High Cost of Wal-Mart's Everyday Low Prices Is Hurting America. Mark was raised in Santa Barbara, California, and has lived in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and London. He currently lives near New York City with his wife and sons.