Robert Bidinotto
Robert Bidinotto is an award-winning journalist and editor, a popular speaker, and a bestselling thriller novelist. For over fifty years he has written and spoken on cultural and political issues from the perspective of principled individualism.
While writing investigative articles as a Staff Writer for Reader's Digest in the 1980s and ’90s, Robert established a national reputation as an authority on criminal justice, and as a leading critic of environmentalism.
His many criminal justice writings include his famous 1988 Reader’s Digest article “Getting Away with Murder.” During that year’s presidential campaign, his article stirred a nationwide controversy about crime and prison furlough programs. The American Society of Magazine Editors named it a 1989 finalist for a National Magazine Award.
Robert wrote the acclaimed nonfiction title Criminal Justice? The Legal System vs. Individual Responsibility, with a foreword by John Walsh of the “America’s Most Wanted” television show. He also wrote Freed to Kill—a compendium of horror stories exposing the injustices of our justice system.
In 2011, Robert drew upon this background, and his personal experiences with crime victims, to write his first thriller novel, HUNTER. It became a Wall St. Journal “Top 10 Fiction Ebook” and soared to #4 overall on the Kindle bestseller list. He has since written two bestselling sequels in his Dylan Hunter thriller series, one of which—BAD DEEDS—dramatizes the dangers and evils of environmentalism.
Robert’s articles, columns, and reviews have appeared in many other journals, including Success, Writer’s Digest, The Boston Herald, The Intellectual Activist, The American Spectator, City Journal, The Freeman, and Reason.
He received the Free Press Association’s Mencken Award in 1985 for “Best Feature Story,” and he was honored by the National Victim Center and other victim rights organizations for his outspoken public advocacy on behalf of crime victims.
These days, Robert is hard at work on the further adventures of his thriller hero Dylan Hunter—whom he describes as “the new face of justice.” But recently, he took time out from fiction writing to compile his past writings on environmentalism into a new book anthology: A REBEL IN EDEN: The War Between Individualism and Environmentalism.
With his beloved, sorely missed cat Luna…who plays a continuing role in the Dylan Hunter thrillers series.
One of many media appearances.
On a Caribbean cruise—a favorite vacation destination for Robert and his wife.
Author portrait by Judd Weiss
As editor of The New Individualist magazine, in 2007 Robert was awarded one of the magazine industry’s top honors for editorial excellence: the Folio Gold “Eddie” Award.
Relaxing after a presentation at a local library about the art and craft of writing thrillers.