Lawrence Lanahan has worked in radio and print journalism for two decades. He created “The Lines Between Us,” a year-long multimedia series about inequality that won a duPont Award for Baltimore’s WYPR 88.1FM.
Lanahan is the author of The Lines Between Us: Two Families and a Quest to Cross Baltimore’s Racial Divide. The 2019 narrative nonfiction book earned The New Press’s Studs and Ida Terkel Award.
Lanahan has master’s degrees in sociology from American University and in journalism from Columbia University. He writes songs and performs in Baltimore with Glad Pulses and Disappearing Ink. He lives in northeast Baltimore with his wife and two sons.
