Ed Cullen grew up in Alexandria, attended then Northwestern State College in Natchitoches, served four years in the U.S. Navy as a radioman, and finished in journalism at LSU. In forty years at The Advocate, he wrote obituaries, worked the police, court, city hall, and school beats before becoming an award-winning feature writer and Sunday columnist. He retired from The Advocate in March 2013.
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