Chuck Laszewski has been an award-winning newspaper reporter for twenty-six years, most of them at the St. Paul Pioneer Press. While a student at the University of Minnesota in 1978, Laszewski first saw Reed when the actor showed one of his films on campus. After Reed’s death and the collapse of the East German government, Laszewski used his investigative reporting skills to acquire the secret police files on Reed. Laszewski was born and spent his formative years in Wisconsin, primarily Oconomowoc and Middleton before his family moved to Roseville, Mn. while he was in high school. He has worked at newspapers in Worthington, Little Falls and St. Cloud, Mn. Laszewski and his wife Cindy have two children and live in St. Paul, Mn.

Contact Chuck Laszewski at: zewski@comcast.net