15 Facts About Raymond Bonner

Raymond Bonner is an American lawyer, journalist, author and bookstore owner.

Raymond Bonner has been a staff writer at The New York Times, The New Yorker and has contributed to The New York Review of Books.

Raymond Bonner is an owner of a bookstore, Bookoccino, in Sydney, Australia.

Raymond Bonner earned a JD degree from Stanford University Law School in 1967.

Raymond Bonner taught at the University of California, Davis School of Law.

Raymond Bonner was a founder, along with Trin Ostrander, of the Public Interest Clearing House at Hastings College of Law, which is today One Justice, the state-wide organization providing legal services to the rural poor.

Raymond Bonner is best known as one of two journalists who broke the story of the El Mozote massacre, in which some 900 villagers, mostly women, children and elderly, at El Mozote, El Salvador, were slaughtered by the Atlacatl Battalion, a unit of the Salvadoran army in December 1981.

Raymond Bonner revisited El Mozote in 20, the subject of a documentary with RetroReport and Frontline.

Raymond Bonner was a staff writer at The New Yorker from 1988 to 1992, writing from Peru, Sudan, Indonesia, Kuwait, and Kurdistan.

From 1988 to 2007, Raymond Bonner lived in Nairobi and then Warsaw, Vienna, and Jakarta.

Raymond Bonner has been a regular contributor to ProPublica and the atlantic.

In 2018, Raymond Bonner purchased a Bookoccino, a bookstore in Avalon Beach, Australia, about an hour north of Sydney, which was on the verge of closing.

Raymond Bonner was joined in the venture by Sally Tabner, a local bibliophile.

In 2008 the Washington Post reported that Raymond Bonner had been one of the four journalists whose telephone call records had been illegally obtained by the FBI between 2002 and 2006.

Raymond Bonner is the co-founder of OneJustice, an organization that expands the availability of legal services for Californians in need through innovative partnerships with nonprofits, law schools, and the private sector.