Alan Paul (author)

Alan Robert Paul (born September 7, 1966) is an American journalist, author, musician, and blogger.

Paul was born September 7, 1966 in Anchorage, Alaska. He was raised in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, graduating from Taylor Allderdice High School in 1984.

While attending the University of Michigan, working for The Michigan Daily student newspaper, he met his wife, journalist Rebecca Blumenstein, who is now the Deputy Editor in Chief of the Wall Street Journal. Paul worked at the Hudson Reporter in Hoboken, NJ for one year after graduating in 1988. Upon his graduation in 1989, the couple moved to Tampa Bay, Florida. Paul became a stringer at the St. Petersburg Times.

Paul became Managing Editor of Guitar World in February, 1991, and stayed in that job for five years. During that time, under the guidance of Editor in Chief Brad Tolinski, it became the leading musician's magazine in the US. Paul oversaw production and editing and interviewed and wrote about many guitarists, notably the Allman Brothers Band, the doors, Metallica, and many blues artists, including B.B. King and Buddy Guy.

The couple moved to Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1996, when Blumenstein was hired by the Detroit Bureau of the Wall Street Journal. Paul was a Guitar World senior writer, also handling Online Editor duties, and began branching out more, writing for diverse publications such as SLAM Magazine, The New Yorker, People, and Entertainment Weekly.

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