Patrick Range McDonald

Patrick Range McDonald is an American author and journalist.[1] As a staff writer at L.A. Weekly, he won the Los Angeles Press Club's "Journalist of the Year" award[2] and the "Public Service" award from the Association of Alternative Newsmedia.[3]

McDonald also co-wrote former Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan's memoir, The Mayor: How I Turned Around Los Angeles after Riots, an Earthquake, and the OJ Simpson Murder Trial. The book was a New York Times and Los Angeles Times best seller.[4][5]

And he wrote a book about Los Angeles-based AIDS Healthcare Foundation, the world's largest HIV/AIDS medical-care nonprofit that operates in 45 countries and serves more than 1.6 million patients. The book is titled Righteous Rebels: AIDS Healthcare Foundation's Crusade to Change the World.[6] In a review, The Lancet, the global health journal, noted: "McDonald has managed a deft balancing act with this book: on one hand providing a fascinating inside view of a billion-dollar non-profit organisation, while on the other hand providing a history of both the AIDS Healthcare Foundation and the AIDS crisis, full of human interest and compelling portraits of the major players in the organisation."[7]

McDonald was later the historical consultant for Keeping the Promise: AHF 30 Years,[8] a documentary narrated by actress Meryl Streep.

He is currently the advocacy journalist for Housing Is A Human Right, the housing advocacy division of AIDS Healthcare Foundation.[9] His work there earned him the "Best Activism Journalism" award from the Los Angeles Press Club.[10] In 2022, McDonald wrote a short book, Selling Off California: The Untold Story, about the powerful alliances and devastating policies that fuel the housing affordability and homelessness crises in California.[11] He was born in Newark, New Jersey.

References

  1. "Patrick Range McDonald". Retrieved September 27, 2016.
  2. Simone Wilson (June 27, 2011). "Patrick Range McDonald Named Best Print Journalist of The Year By L.A. Press Club; LA Weekly Takes Home 6 More Awards". LA Weekly. Retrieved January 12, 2015.
  3. "AltWeekly Awards". Association of Alternative Newsmedia. Retrieved January 12, 2015.
  4. "New York Times Best Sellers". The New York Times. October 19, 2014. Retrieved January 12, 2015.
  5. "Bestsellers". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 20 June 2017.
  6. McDonald, Patrick Range (2016). Righteous Rebels: AIDS Healthcare Foundation's Crusade to Change the World. Prospect Park Books, LLC. ISBN 9781938849930.
  7. ""Anyone Can Absolutely Change the World"" (PDF). The Lancet. June 2017.
  8. ""World Premiere of 'Keeping the Promise: AHF 30 Years' in Los Angeles"". October 22, 2017.
  9. "Housing Is A Human Right".
  10. "Fordham Graduate Earns Journalism Award for Covering LA's Housing Crisis". Fordham Magazine. September 23, 2020.
  11. Staff, Housing Is A Human Right (February 15, 2022). "Housing Is A Human Right Proudly Releases 'Selling Off California: The Untold Story'". Housing Is A Human Right.
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