BIO
Adam Pitluk is an award-winning journalist and the author of “Damned To Eternity” and “Standing Eight,” both books critically acclaimed and studies of the human condition. He is currently the executive editor of American Way and Celebrated Living magazines, the in-flight and first class magazines of American Airlines respectively.
Prior to joining American Airlines fulltime, Adam was a reporter for Time magazine for seven years. He was also a reporter for People magazine from his days in New York, where he covered celebrity news. Adam is the former senior editor of Spirit magazine, the in-flight magazine of Southwest Airlines, and the former features editor of Boys’ Life magazine. He was a reporter for Court TV and a former staff writer for Village Voice Media. Adam was a professor of journalism at the University of Texas at Arlington, where he taught reporting and editing.
Adam’s work has appeared in a host of publications, including Smithsonian Air & Space, Popular Mechanics, New York Daily News, New York Review of Magazines, Dallas Morning News, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Vail Daily, Broward/Palm Beach New Times, Details, Riverfront Times, D Magazine, and Fort Worth Weekly. He’s also appeared on national television and radio dozens of times.
Adam has a bachelor of journalism from the University of Missouri and a master of science from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He also attended Texas Wesleyan University School of Law (currently on leave). Originally from Cleveland, Ohio, he now lives in Dallas, Texas.
