Philip L. Fradkin is an American environmentalist historian, journalist and author. Fradkin has authored books ranging from Alaska, California and Nevada, with topics ranging from water conservation, earthquakes, and nuclear weapons.
Fradkin shared a Pulitzer Prize awarded to the metropolitan staff of the Los Angeles Times for coverage of the Watts riots in 1965. In 2005, Fradkin was given the Californiana Award by the Commonwealth Club of California.
He has commented on controversial issues such as plagiarism allegations towards Wallace Stegner's Pulitzer Prize winning novel, Angle of Repose, based on the letters of the American Old West author Mary Hallock Foote.