Greg Dawson

Greg Dawson is an American columnist and author. Dawson has been in journalism for more than 50 years; he has worked as a reporter, a television critic, metro columnist, and consumer columnist.

His column, titled "The Last Resort," published in the Orlando Sentinel, answers questions trying to help companies and consumers resolve conflicts. Dawson, uses a humorous and sarcastic tone while answering consumer questions. In 2009 he published his first book, Hiding in the Spotlight: A Musical Prodigy's Story of Survival, 1941-1946. He and his wife, Candy, wrote a book, "Busted in Bloomington: A Tragedy in the Summer of '68," that described how the 60s was not a time of liberation, as many people believe. The story focused on a high school English teacher, who was forced to keep his sexual identity hidden, because being gay at the time was seen as taboo. His column, titled "The Last Resort," answers questions to help companies and consumers resolve conflicts; often written in a humorous tone. The book tells the story of his mother, Zhanna Arshanskaya Dawson, who as a teenage girl escaped from the Holocaust along with her sister. The rest of their family was murdered. By assuming new identities and playing piano for German soldiers the sisters survived the holocaust and made their way to the United States.

A short documentary, also titled Hiding in the Spotlight, was written and directed by Dawsons wife, Candy; it was released in April 2010. Dawson narrates the short film; some of the documentary was filmed in Kharkiv, Ukraine.