Career
Pulitzer is a former correspondent for The New York Times newspaper, In 1994, her first book, "Crossing the Lincolnshire: Joel Rifkin", with New York Times Correspondent Joan Swirsky, investigated serial killer Rifkin and the crimes he confessed to committing. Her second book (1996), "Crime on Deadline", is an anthology of true crime stories. Her next book (2003) "Murder in Paradise", studies the circumstances in which American Lois McMillan drowned while visiting the British Virgin Islands.
In addition to her own books, Lisa Pulitzer works as a ghost writer, as well as a co-author
The Spanish edition of Daughters of Juarez, written with Univision television host Teresa Rodriguez, and published by Simon & Schuster, was a bestseller. The book chronicles the unsolved murders of hundreds of young women in the Mexican border town of Ciudad Juárez.
Wall escaped the religion and later was the star witness at the trial of its prophet, Warren Jeffs. Jeffs is now serving a ten year sentence in a Utah prison for taking part in the arrangement of underage marriages.
On July 5, 2011, Saint Martin"s Press released "Portrait of a Monster: Joran van der Sloot, a Murder in Peru, and the Natalee Holloway Mystery," a book on the van der Sloot case, then pending in Lima, Peru.
Her co-author is New York Times Bestselling Author Cole Thompson of "A Deadly Game."
Lisa Pulitzer has taught creative writing to children at the USDAN Center for the Performing Arts on Long Island, and used to be a co-director of the Pulitzer & Panetta Writing & Art Studio in Huntington, New New York She has two children, Juliet and Francesca.
