Episode 58: Leonora LaPeter Anton
Leonora LaPeter Anton is a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter on the Tampa Bay Times’ enterprise team. In January, the Times published her story, “Gang raped at 17. Therapy at 65.” The story follows the attempt of Evelyn Robinson to cope with a horrific rape, 48 years after it happened. LaPeter Anton has been at the Tampa Bay Times since 2000. Her stories veer toward the unusual – a surrogate mother who can’t get pregnant; a broke couple who rent rooms in their mansion. She won a Pulitzer for her work in an investigation into the failing mental hospitals in the state of Florida. She also contributes to the newspaper’s occasional series, Encounters, which are short narratives about people living ordinary lives in south Florida. Her most recent Encounter focused on a woman applying for a job at Subway. LaPeter Anton grew up in Connecticut and Greece, and studied journalism at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.