Bryan Gruley is a reporter-at-large for Bloomberg News in Chicago, writing about a wide array of subjects. Since joining Bloomberg in September 2011, he has written about sex among demented people in nursing homes, the difficult life of McDonald's franchisees, the rise of Buffalo Wild Wings, oilman Harold Hamm, a Texas ranch for sale for $725 million, Starbucks' coffee farm in Costa Rica, Detroit's twin pizza barons, a medical marijuana entrepreneur, copper mining in northern Minnesota, the pipeline industry, the struggles of Best Buy, alleged piracy king Kim Dotcom, the rise of Chobani yogurt, so-called pink slime in beef, and hockey stick design.
Previously, he spent nearly 16 years with The Wall Street Journal, as a reporter and editor in the Washington Bureau and later as the chief of the Chicago Bureau. He shared in the Journal's 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News for coverage of the September 11 terrorist attacks. He has won numerous other awards for his journalism. He is also the author of three award-winning mystery novels, Starvation Lake, The Hanging Tree, and The Skeleton Box. He is working on a fourth novel. A Detroit native and graduate of the University of Notre Dame, he lives in Chicago with his wife, Pam.
