He has reported on transportation and planning for the public radio show The Takeaway, and for WNYC’s TransportationNation.org.
In 2010, he published his first book, Interstate 69: The Unfinished History of the Last Great American Highway, which the Wall Street Journal called "an American-civics reality show, featuring pitched battles among special interests, grass-roots activists, environmentalists, politicians and Beltway bandits.
[3] He oversaw similar archival projects for Esquire, Aviation Week, Maclean's, and Aperture Magazine.
[4] In 2016, he became a Creative and Performing Artist and Writer Fellow at the American Antiquarian Society for research on his second book, about the Brooklyn 14th Regiment, which fought in the Civil War.
[5] Dellinger was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, attended Pike High School, and graduated from DePauw University in 1997.