Doug MacCash

Doug MacCash has been an arts and culture writer with The Times-Picayune newspaper and NOLA.com for more than 25 years. He shares in two Pulitzer Prizes for reporting immediately after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. In 2022, MacCash’s cultural history book titled Louisiana True: Mardi Gras Beads, was published by LSU Press. His upcoming book on the history of graffiti in New Orleans may be published as early as 2026. In the late 1990s, MacCash began researching a biography of George Dureau that was never completed. In the process he spent many hours interviewing the artist.