Kevin Fagan is a Pulitzer Prize-nominated longtime former reporter at the San Francisco Chronicle. He's an expert on murderers from the Zodiac Killer to the Unabomber, and his 8-part podcast and story package in 2021 on the unsolved Doodler serial killer case was The Chronicle’s first true crime podcast series. It was a worldwide hit, reaching #2 on the charts in America and #3 in Britain. Fagan has witnessed seven executions and covered some of the biggest stories of our times, from the Sept. 11 terror attacks and Columbine High massacre to several decades worth of crimes, presidential elections, wildfires, floods, protests and riots before retiring from newspapering in 2025 to pursue book writing.

He’s also one of the country’s foremost journalists on homelessness, and his book “The Lost and The Found,” about two unhoused people he helped rescue from the streets, came out through Simon & Schuster in February 2025. As a news reporter, he spent 6 months sleeping in the streets of San Francisco for the influential “Shame of the City” series in 2003 and has written extensively since then on aspects of the problem all over the nation. Fagan’s national awards include the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism and Excellence in Urban Journalism Award, as well as the prestigious John Knight Fellowship to Stanford University.