Randy Fertel

Randy Fertel is cofounder of the Ridenhour Prizes for Courageous Truth-Telling, co-sponsored by the Nation Institute and awarded every spring at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. His book, "The Gorilla Man and the Empress of Steak: A New Orleans Family Memoir," is forthcoming from the University Press of Mississippi. For more information, go to http://www.gorillamanofneworleans.com.