ABOUT THE AUTHOR Randall Richard has undertaken many journalistic journeys during his 30 years as a reporter for the Providence Journal-Bulletin. He is a former Journal-Bulletin Washington correspondent and a founding member of the newspaper's investigative team. For the past 20 years he has specialized in major, developed pieces from Washington, Latin America and Eastern Europe. The 52-year-old Richard was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in International Reporting in 1981 for a series on Colombia's drug trade and again in 1988 for a series on Central America's adoption market. He has received awards from the Inter-American Press Association and the Overseas Press Club for his reporting from Latin America, and was named a finalist by the American Society of Newspaper Editors in the category of Best Newspaper Writing of 1993 for his dispatches from the former Soviet Union. In 1993 he also received the New England Society of Newspaper Editor's Master Reporter Award for career achievement in journalism. A recent project, Digital Postcards from the 21st Century provides glimpses of Richard's travels through Asia during the months of April, May, June and July of 1997.   BACK