When Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Bill Dedman noticed a grand estate in Connecticut that had sat empty for nearly sixty years, he had no idea that he was stumbling onto one of the greatest American stories of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries--complete with copper barons, Gilded Age opulence, backdoor politics, and a reclusive 104-year-old heiress named Huguette Clark. His series of stories about the Clarks became the most popular feature in the history of NBC's news web site, topping 105 million page views.
Bill is an investigative reporter for NBC. He received the 1989 Pulitzer Prize in investigative reporting for his work for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He got his start in journalism at 16 as a copy boy at The Chattanooga Times, and has written for The Boston Globe, The Washington Post and The New York Times.
Paul Clark Newell Jr., cousin of Huguette Clark and grand nephew of Senator William Andrews Clark (Huguette's father), Newell is one of the few persons admitted into regular communication with with the reclusive Huguette in the last 20 years of her life.
As the informal historian of the Clark family Newell enjoys acquaintance with many of the living descendants of Senator Clark and his siblings, and has known others no longer living, including a few who knew Huguette as a child and as a young woman.
Writing has been incidental to Newell in various enterprises subsequent to his experience as editor of the college newspaper at his alma mater, Occidental College.
