About Frank

You never know what hat Frank X. Mullen will be wearing next. Mullen is the Reno Gazette-Journal reporter who is known for his hard-hitting investigative series. He broke stories about the Fallon cancer cluster, the most dangerous Nevada doctors and toxic clouds generated by burning live munitions at the Sierra Army Depot in Herlong, Calif. Mullen is also a historian and author of "The Donner Party Chronicles: A Day-By-Day Account of a Doomed Wagon Train," now in its fifth printing. Read more at Amazon.com.

In his spare time, Mullen teaches journalism classes at the University of Nevada, lectures about Western history and performs in the Great Basin Chautauqua and other Chautauquas nationwide --where he plays such historic figures as Babe Ruth, Benedict Arnold, Edward R. Murrow and Albert Einstein. In 2002 and 2005, Mullen was named Nevada's Outstanding Journalist of the Year by the Nevada Press Association. He is currently working on a master's degree in journalism/new media at the Reynolds School of Journalism at the University of Nevada, Reno and is writing a novel about prehistoric Nevada and a book on the history of the Truckee River. He and his wife, Susan, a newspaper feature writer, live in Reno.