Bruce Westbrook is a native Texan and Houston-based journalist who has written for several major newspapers, including 20 years for the Houston Chronicle. As a print journalist he principally covered arts and entertainment, and in doing so he interviewed such persons as Steven Spielberg, George Clooney, Dolly Parton and Michelle Pfeiffer. He then worked for eight years as a writer-editor at a major Houston law firm, writing press releases, letters to clients, speeches for lawyers, advertising scripts and hundreds of pages of website content. He now writes freelance for law firm websites and various news and features print publications and websites.