Larry Hayes

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Pulitzer finalist, champion of the underdog, Larry Hayes wrote editorials and columns for the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette for more than a quarter century.   He launched a winning crusade to gain the transfer of a 14-year-old girl from adult prison into juvenile treatment.  Larry got a university to create one of the country’s first institutes for behavior studies.  He helped found a suicide prevention council and introduced crisis training to his city for police dealing with the mentally ill.  He campaigned for the creation of a rehabilitation center for persons with major mental illness.
 
Larry's much praised memoir, Monday I’ll Save the World, recounts his battle for rational gun regulation, an end to corporal punishment in schools, abolition of the death penalty and a ban on smoking in restaurants.  U.S. Senator Dick Lugar says that Larry’s writing has changed lives.

Hayes holds degrees in theology and English.  He’s married with two children and two grandchildren.  In 2000, he retired to write books and continue his advocacy, now focused on winning better services for persons with mental illness.