Rick Kogan, the host of WGN's Sunday Papers with Rick Kogan is the son of legendary newspaperman and author Herman Kogan. He wrote his first story for the Sun-Times at 16. He was later on the staff of the Chicago Daily News and the Sun-Times. There he began a weekly column on the city's night club scene, later collected in a book, Dr. Night Life's Chicago. In the 1980s, he joined the Chicago Tribune where he was TV critic for five years and later the editor of Tempo, the paper's daily feature section. He is now a senior writer and Sidewalks columnist for the paper's Sunday magazine, a frequent guest on national radio and television shows and creator/host of The Sunday Papers. He has written eight books, including, in collaboration with his father, Yesterday's Chicago. His latest book, America's Mom: The Life, Lessons and Legacy of Ann Landers, a personal portrait of his friend and colleague, was published in the fall of 2003 by William Morrow.