Serrano, Richard A.: - A native of Kansas City, Missouri, Richard A. Serrano reported on the Hyatt skywalks tragedy, the cause of the collapse, and the ensuing litigation for the Kansas City Times, for which he shared a Pulitzer Prize. Serrano later spent three decades with the Los Angeles Times, and shared in two more Pulitzers for covering the 1992 Rodney King riots in Los Angeles and the 2015 terror attack in San Bernardino, California. His other books deal with the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, the US Army's death row, the Civil War, and the American West.