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Stephen G. Bloom is an American journalist and professor of Journalism at the University of Iowa, in Iowa City.

Bloom studied at University of California, Berkeley, graduating with a B.A. in 1973.

Bloom has written for the Los Angeles Times, the San Jose Mercury News, the Sacramento Bee and the Dallas Morning News. He also served as the national news editor at the Latin America Daily Post.

Bloom served as press secretary and chief speech writer for San Francisco Mayor Frank Jordan during 1992.

Bloom has been a visiting scholar at Columbia University's Center for the Study of Society and Medicine.

Bloom has also written a number of short stories, and co-written a play called Shoedog. He wrote the book A Clash of Cultures in Heartland America, a look at a Chabad hasidic community that moved into a small Midwestern town. His book was heavily criticized in Jewish religious circles as having an anti religious bias. He has published The Oxford Project with photographer Peter Feldstein; The book comprises a series portraits of residents of Oxford, Iowa, taken 21 years apart with first-person text from the subjects.

Bloom is current working on Tears of the Mermaid, a book about the history of pearls and the people who collect, trade, sell and obsess over them. It will be published by St. Martin's Press.

He is married with a son and lives in Iowa City, Iowa.

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