2002 Nieman Conference on Narrative Journalism
November
8 - 10, 2002
Hyatt Regency Cambridge Hotel
Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
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2002 Nieman Conference on Narrative Journalism November
8 - 10, 2002
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Elijah Anderson is one of America's most eminent ethnographers. The Charles and William Day Distinguished Professor and Professor of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania and an expert on the sociology of black America, he is the author of the seminal "A Place on the Corner: A Study of Black Street Corner Men" and "Code of the Street: Decency, Violence and the Moral Life of the Inner City," which originated as a 1994 cover story for The Atlantic Monthly. For his book "Streetwise: Race, Class and Change in an Urban Community" he won the Robert E. Park Award of the American Sociological Association. His most recent work is "Problem of the Century: Racial Stratification in the U.S. at Century's End." Anderson is director of the Philadelphia Ethnography Project, associate editor of Qualitative Sociology and a member of the board of directors of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. Links |
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Bob Batz Jr. started his career as a toddler who tagged along while his father wrote about coal-mine disasters. This year, Batz was part of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette team that quickly produced " 'All Nine Alive!' The story of the Quecreek Mine rescue" -- a 10-page saga of Pennsylvania miners trapped for 78 hours in July. (The special section is now a book.) Batz has written features for Pittsburgh dailies for 16 years, chronicling everything from the funeral of Princess Diana to nude volleyball. His favorite narrative project is a serial of daily dispatches he filed while riding with ironworkers in a rented motor home to Tempe, Ariz., to see the Steelers play in Super Bowl XXX. Batz leads the "Storytellers," a grass-roots group of Pittsburgh Post-Gazette writers and photographers. He founded the group after attending the 2000 Conference on Narrative Journalism and keeps in touch with similar groups at other papers. Links |
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Madeleine Helena Blais wrote "In These Girls, Hope is a Muscle," a story of basketball and girls' coming-of-age, and the most recent "Uphill Walkers: Portrait of a Family," which has been selected by the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill as one of its national award winners this year. Blais teaches journalism at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. For her work for the Tropic Magazine of the Miami Herald in the 1970's and 80's, she won many awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing. She has served as a Pulitzer juror twice and as a juror for the National Book Award in nonfiction. She has also worked for The Boston Globe, Women's Wear Daily and The (Trenton) Times. Blais was a 1986 Nieman Fellow.
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Katherine Boo has since 1993 been an investigative reporter for The Washington Post, where she writes intimately about the poor and disadvantaged. She received a Pulitzer Prize in 2000 for her stories disclosing abuse in Washington's group homes for the mentally retarded. She has also written about low-income families for The New Yorker and been an editor at The Washington Monthly and Washington City Paper. Currently a senior fellow at the New America Foundation, Boo was recently named a 2002 MacArthur Fellow. |
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Gerald Boyd became managing editor at The New York Times a few weeks before the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. Under his leadership and that of other editors, The Times produced a special "Nation Challenged" section that ran daily in the newspaper through the end of 2001. Included in this section were "Portraits of Grief," the much-acclaimed profiles of the victims of the terrorist attacks. Boyd served as the co-senior editor of The Times series "How Race Is Lived in America," which was published in 2000 and awarded a Pulitzer Prize for national reporting the following year. Boyd was a 1981 Nieman Fellow. Links |
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Roy Peter Clark is senior scholar
at the Poynter Institute, where he has taught writing since 1979. Clark
is also founding director of the institute's National Writers Workshop.
He came to Poynter after working as a writing coach at the St. Petersburg
Times, for which he has written numerous features and serial narratives.
He wrote "Free to Write: A Journalist Teaches Young Writers," co-wrote
"Coaching Writers: Editors and Reporters Working Together," co-edited
"America's Best Newspaper Writing," "The Craft and Values of American
Journalism" and "The Changing South of Gene Patterson: The Journalism
of Civil Rights, 1960-1968." Clark contributes to the Poynter Web site
under the pseudonym Dr. Ink. He is a Distinguished Service Member of the
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Ted Conover's "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" describes his rookie
year as a corrections officer inside New York's storied Sing Sing
prison. "Newjack" was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2001 and won
the National Book Critics Circle award in general nonfiction in 2000.
The book was initially banned by the New York State Department of
Correctional Services. (It's still considered contraband until several
pages have been removed.) Conover, whose writings are frequently based
on first-hand participation, contributes to The New York Times Magazine
and other publications. His previous books include "Rolling Nowhere," an
account of riding the rails with modern-day hoboes; "Coyotes: A journey
through the secret world of America's illegal aliens," which recounts
his travels in Mexico, the United States and across the border with
those who perform America's menial labor; and "Whiteout: Lost in Aspen,"
in which he explored the collision of small-town life with the culture
of celebrity in Colorado's elite ski enclave. In 2000, Conover was a
Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Politics at Harvard University's
Kennedy School of Government. He teaches on the faculty of the Bread
Loaf Writers' Conference in Vermont.
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Lane DeGregory is a features writer for the St. Petersburg Times.
She prefers writing about people who don't typically make the news. She
has watched through the gasoline haze as a 16-year-old female racecar
driver beat the boys at a drag strip; attended the funeral of a man
whose family buried him in a coffee pot and hung out with adolescent
anarchists at a skateboard park, trying to get their take on Florida's
mixed-up elections. She has won several awards, including second place
for deadline reporting in 1999 in the ASNE Awards, first place in the
1999 National Association of Black Journalists Salute to Excellence, and
second place in the 2000 American Association of Sunday and Features
Editors short-features category. (That narrative was about a man who
scoops dog poop for a living.) Last year, the National Alliance for the
Mentally Ill gave her its Outstanding Media Award. Before joining the
Times, she covered news and features for The Virginian-Pilot for a
decade. She also wrote a travel book, "The Insiders' Guide to North
Carolina's Outer Banks," in 1996.
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Debra Dickerson has worked as a national correspondent for Salon and a senior editor at U.S. News & World Report. She wrote "An American Story," a memoir of her childhood in the ghetto of St. Louis, her political awakening and development, her 12 years with the U.S. Air Force and her study at Harvard Law School. Until the end of last year, she was a senior fellow at the New America Foundation. She's now working on a book about the future of black progress. Called "The End of Blackness," it will be published by Pantheon in October 2003. |
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Susan Eaton wrote "The Other Boston Busing Story: What's Won and
Lost Across the Boundary Line" and coauthored "Dismantling
Desegregation: The quiet reversal of Brown v. Board of Education." She
is working on a book about a classroom and a landmark civil-rights case
in Hartford. She's been assistant director of the Harvard Project on
School Desegregation and is consulting researcher at The Civil Rights
Project at Harvard. She was an education reporter for daily papers in
Massachusetts and Connecticut from 1985 to 1993. Her writing has also
appeared in The Boston Globe Magazine, The Washington Post and Newsday.
She's won first-place writing awards from the National Association of
Black Journalists and the National Education Association.
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Morgan Entrekin is 45 years old
and has been an editor in book publishing for more than 20 years.
After graduating from Stanford University, he joined Delacorte Press/Dell
and worked with such authors as Kurt Vonnegut, Jayne Anne Phillips, Craig
Nova and Richard Brautigan. In 1982 he moved to Simon & Schuster and acquired
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Anne Fadiman edits The American Scholar, a literary quarterly that has won National Magazine Awards for general excellence and feature writing. Her first book, "The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors and the Collision of Two Cultures," won the National Book Critics Circle Award for general nonfiction and the Los Angeles Times Book Award for current-interest nonfiction. Her second book, "Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader," is a collection of essays on reading and language. Fadiman will guest edit the 2003 edition of "Best American Essays." LinksExcerpt from "The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down" The American Scholar |
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Jon Franklin's innovative use of narrative in nonfiction won him the first Pulitzer Prizes ever awarded in the categories of feature writing (1979) and explanatory journalism (1985). He is one of a few writers to have headed both a journalism program (at Oregon State University) and a creative-writing program (at the University of Oregon). He is the Philip Merrill Professor of Journalism at the University of Maryland's Philip Merrill School of Journalism. He is the founder and moderator of WriterL, a subscription-only listserve for writers. His books include "The Molecules of the Mind," "Writing for Story," "Guinea Pig Doctors" with John Sutherland, and "Not Quite a Miracle" and "Shocktrauma" with Alan Doelp. Links |
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Lynn Franklin is a freelance writer, writing coach and editor of
WriterL, the online writing forum. A frequent speaker at writers'
workshops in the United States and Canada, Franklin is known for
applying the writing techniques of classical fiction to nonfiction. Her
essay "Literary Theft: Taking techniques from the Classics" recently
appeared in "The Journalist's Craft: A guide to writing better stories."
She is currently working on a narrative nonfiction book about women
real-estate agents and a book on writing.
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Atul Gawande has had to cancel this year's talk, but he promised to join us next year. Atul Gawande is a staff writer for The New Yorker and a resident in general surgery in Boston. In his narrative pieces for The New Yorker, he provides good company on consequential excursions into the sealed world of medical practice and research. Gawande earned his M.D. and M.P.H. at Harvard University as well as a master's degree in politics, philosophy and economics from Oxford University. He advised the Clinton Administration on health policy and was a research fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health. His writing was included in "Best American Science Writing 2002." His first book, "Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science," was published in April 2002. |
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Malcolm Gladwell wrote "The Tipping Point," a New York Times and international bestseller. He's a staff writer at The New Yorker; previously he was a business and science writer at The Washington Post. "The Tipping Point" is about the growth of trends and how, as the book's subtitle says, "little things can make a big difference." Gladwell's writings dig up emblematic details -- whether in the work of air-traffic controllers or in diaper manufacturing -- that reveal cultural truths. Links |
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Melissa Fay Greene wrote "Praying
for Sheetrock," the story of the political awakening of a rural African-American
community and the downfall of a corrupt courthouse gang. The book was
a National Book Award finalist and a National Book Critics Circle Award
finalist, won the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award and was on the J List!,
New York University's roster of the top 100 works of American journalism
in the 20th century. Greene's most recent book, "The Temple Bombing,"
a nonfiction whodunit about an attack on an Atlanta synagogue in October
1958, was also a National Book Award finalist and winner of the Southern
Book Critics Circle Award. Greene has written for The New Yorker, Newsweek,
Life, The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post and The Atlantic
Monthly. Her new book, about the 1958 Springhill coal-mine disaster (tentatively
titled "Last Man Out") will be published by Harcourt in spring 2003.
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Tom Hallman Jr. is a senior reporter specializing in features at
The Oregonian. He joined the paper in 1980 and covered the police beat
for a decade, longer than any reporter since the 1950s. While covering
cops, Hallman began writing feature stories -- at first off the beat,
then the stories of everyday people. He was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in
beat reporting in 1995 and in feature writing in 1999. He has won the
Ernie Pyle Award for human-interest writing, the ASNE Distinguished
Writing Award for nondeadline writing (twice), the feature-writing award
from the Society of Professional Journalists and the Livingston Award
for Young Journalists.
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Jack Hart, a managing editor at The Oregonian, has coached
writing in newsrooms throughout the English-speaking world. He has
edited two Pulitzer Prize-winning stories (and contributed to a third).
He has also edited winners of the ASNE Writing Awards, the Ernie Pyle
Award, the Scripps Howard business-writing award, The Overseas Press
Club Awards, the Headliners awards and the Society of Professional
Journalists feature-writing award. He has taught at five universities,
the Poynter Institute and the American Press Institute.
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John C. Hartsock is the author of "A History of American
Literary Journalism: The emergence of a modern narrative form," an
award-winning history of narrative journalism. He speaks widely on the
theory and history of the literary form and has published extensively in
both scholarly and popular publications. Hartsock teaches journalism at
the State University of New York at Cortland. Before going into
teaching, he worked as a reporter, starting on a small country weekly
and eventually ending up at U.P.I. covering Congress. He also covered
the collapse of the Soviet Union for The [San Francisco] Examiner and
other publications.
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Adam Hochschild began work as a
newspaper reporter in San Francisco, then was a co-founder of Mother Jones
magazine. Since the mid-1980's he has mainly spent his time writing books.
His five volumes include "Half the Way Home: A Memoir of Father and Son"
and "Finding the Trapdoor: Essays, Portraits, Travels," which won the
PEN/Spielvogel-Diamonstein Award for the Art of the Essay. He also wrote
"King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial
Africa," which was a finalist for a National Book Critics' Circle Award
and won a J. Anthony Lukas Prize and other awards in the United States
and abroad. He teaches a writing class at the Graduate School of Journalism
at the University of California at Berkeley and was a Fulbright lecturer
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Molly Ivins is a Texan and a nationally syndicated political columnist who has regarded with hilarity decades of state and national politics. She was the (Minneapolis) Star Tribune's first woman police reporter and has also worked for The Texas Observer, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and The New York Times. She went independent in 2001 and that year won the William Allen White Award from the University of Kansas, the Smith Medal from Smith College and was elected to the National Academy of Arts and Sciences. She's freelanced for Esquire Magazine, Harper's Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, The Nation and opined for National Public Radio and "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer." She's written four best-selling books including the most recent "Shrub: The Short but Happy Political Life of George W. Bush." |
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The Kitchen Sisters, Davia Nelson and Nikki Silva, have been producing radio programs together since 1979. They are executive producers (with Jay Allison) of "Lost & Found Sound," a national collaboration heard on National Public Radio's "All Things Considered." "Lost & Found Sound" was honored with a George Peabody Award in 1999. In 2000, it received a Clarion award from the Association for Women in Communications, a Silver Reel from the National Federation of Community Broadcasters and the project's Web site was awarded a Webby. Their work has also been featured on "Morning Edition," "The Sunday Show," Radio Smithsonian, Pacifica Radio, "Soundprint" and California Public Radio. In the past year, the Kitchen Sisters have spearheaded the "Lost & Found Sound" Sonic Memorial Project, commemorating the life and history of the World Trade Center and its neighborhood. When she's not a Kitchen Sister, Davia Nelson is a screenwriter, producer, director and casting director. She co-wrote and produced the 1994 feature film "Imaginary Crimes"; produced and directed the Emmy-nominated "Making Tutti," a 1997 PBS documentary on the making of an Italian/doo wop/gospel children's musical; and did location casting for Francis Ford Coppola's "The Rainmaker." Nikki Silva has been the history curator for the Museum of Art and History in Santa Cruz, Calif., and works as freelance curator and a museum consultant specializing in regional history. Her recent exhibitions include "The World Famous Tree Circus," the saga of a California roadside attraction, and "Coastal Voices" featuring life in Davenport, a tiny cement-producing town. Links
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Mark Kramer has written articles
for The Boston Globe, The New York Times Magazine, National Geographic,
The Atlantic Monthly, Outside and other publications. His books include
"Three Farms: Making Milk, Meat and Money from the American Soil," "Invasive
Procedures: A Year in the World of Two Surgeons" and "Travels with a Hungry
Bear: A Journey to the Russian Heartland." He co-edited the anthology
"Literary Journalism" and is writer-in-residence at the Nieman Foundation
at Harvard University and director of the Nieman Program on Narrative
Journalism. He was writer-in-residence and professor of journalism at
Boston University from 1991-2001 and taught at Smith College for a decade
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Adrian Nicole LeBlanc wrote "Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble and Coming of Age in the Bronx," soon to be published by Scribners. For the last decade, she has immersed herself in the world of teenagers, particularly the urban poor. She's covered "gang girls" and outcast boys for The New York Times Magazine. "Random Family" chronicles two generations of women in the South Bronx. A recipient of fellowships at the Bunting Institute; Yale Law School and the Center on Crime, Communities and Culture at the Open Society Institute, LeBlanc has also written for The New Yorker, Esquire and The Village Voice. She was formerly fiction editor of Seventeen.
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Daniel W. Lehman is co-editor of River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative. He also co-edits the River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Book Prize Series (University of Nebraska Press). He's professor of English at Ashland University in Ashland, Ohio, and the author of two books of nonfiction theory and criticism: "John Reed and the Writing of Revolution" (2002) and "Matters of Fact: Reading nonfiction over the edge" (1997). A former journalist, Lehman covered law and politics for fifteen years in Virginia, Washington, D.C., and New York City, writing for such magazines and newspapers as The Village Voice, New York Magazine and the Charlottesville Daily Progress. The topics of his critical essays and book chapters range from Sigmund Freud to Jon Krakauer, from Tom Wolfe to Raymond Carver, from downtown Manhattan alternative journalism in the 1970's to the representation of trauma in Amish communities during the 1990's. Lehman was a Stanley J. Kahrl Fellow in Literary Manuscripts at Harvard University during the 2000-2001 academic year. Links |
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Mike Lenehan joined the Chicago Reader in 1972, when it was a 12-page "throwaway" and he was a recent communications-arts grad from the University of Notre Dame. The two grew up together, and he is now executive editor of the Reader, one of the most respected and successful alternative weeklies in the country. From 1983 to 1993 he was also a contributing editor of The Atlantic Monthly. His Reader article on beekeeping won the American Association for the Advancement of Science Westinghouse Science Writing Award in 1979. His Atlantic article on dog training was a finalist in the 1986 National Magazine Awards. Recently he helped to establish the Academy for Alternative Journalism, a program at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism that recruits and trains minority journalists for work in the alternative press. Links |
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Joe Mackall is the co-founder and editor of River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative and co-editor of the River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Book Prize Series (in partnership with the University of Nebraska Press). His articles have been published in a number of newspapers and magazines, including The Washington Post and the Cleveland Plain Dealer. His essays have appeared in several anthologies, literary journals and recently on National Public Radio's "Morning Edition." Mackall is an associate professor of English and journalism at Ashland University in Ashland, Ohio. Links |
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Errol Morris created one of the most highly regarded films of 1997: the critically acclaimed "Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control," which interwove fascinating yet seemingly unrelated stories about a lion tamer, an expert on the African mole rat, a topiary gardener who carves giant animals out of hedges and an MIT scientist who designs robots. The film won the Best Documentary Film Award from the National Board of Review, the National Society of Film Critics, the Boston Society of Film Critics, Florida Film Critics Circle and the Society of Texas Film Critics. It was also awarded the Independent Spirit Award. His other films include "The Thin Blue Line," "Mr. Death" and "A Brief History of Time." Morris has received three fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Guggenheim Fellowship and a MacArthur Fellowship.
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Lisa Pollak has written features for The Baltimore Sun for the last six years. She won the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for feature writing for her story about a baseball umpire who lost a son to a rare genetic disease and whose second son suffered from the same illness. Before joining The Sun, she wrote features for The News & Observer in Raleigh, N.C. While there, she won the 1995 Ernie Pyle Award for human-interest writing. |
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Richard Read is The Oregonian's senior writer for international
affairs. He won the Pulitzer Prize for explanatory reporting in 1999 for
a narrative series that explained Asia's financial crisis by following a
batch of French fries from a Northwest farm to a Singapore McDonald's.
In 2001, The Oregonian won the public-service Pulitzer Prize for
coverage of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service by Read and
three other reporters. Read, a 1997 Nieman Fellow, is a former foreign
correspondent.
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Charlotte Renner, bored with writing her dissertation in 1974,
trotted with a friend to the editorial meeting of the Harvard Law School
newspaper and accepted her first freelance assignment. Months later, she
worked up the nerve to tell the editor that she didn't attend Harvard.
He seemed surprised. She took her clippings over to the Boston Phoenix
where she wrote her first paid feature, describing how faded aristocrats
spend Christmas on Beacon Hill. Moving to Maine in the early eighties,
Renner taught English at the Maine College of Art, Westbrook College,
the University of Southern Maine and Bowdoin College. She says she
ruined her chances for tenure by contributing radio essays to Maine
Public Radio instead of writing a book. In 1990, she happily made the
shift to full-time reporting. Four years later she became producer of
"Maine Things Considered," Maine's only daily statewide news program,
and continues to serve as reporter and co-host. She contributes
occasionally to "All Things Considered," "Morning Edition" and
"Marketplace."
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Richard Rodriguez's "trilogy on American public life as seen through
my life" is a set of book-length essays on race and American society --
"Brown: The Last Discovery of America," "Hunger of Memory" and "Days of
Obligation: An Argument With My Mexican Father." He's also written two
documentaries for the British Broadcasting Corporation and edits and writes
for Pacific News Service, Harper's, U.S. News & World Report and the Sunday
"Opinion" section of the Los Angeles Times. He has written for The New
York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The American Scholar, Time, Mother
Jones and The New Republic. His 1997 essays on American life for "The
NewsHour with Jim Lehrer" received the George Foster Peabody Award, one
of television's highest honors. His other awards include the Frankel Medal
from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the International Journalism
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Peter Turnley has witnessed most of the major international news stories and conflicts in the past two decades with camera in hand. He has photographed stories in the Persian Gulf, Bosnia, Kosovo, Somalia, Rwanda, South Africa, Chechnya, Haiti, Indonesia, Afghanistan and Israel, as well as Ground Zero on September 11, 2001, and in the weeks that followed. His photographs have appeared on the cover of Newsweek more than forty times and frequently appear in other publications, such as Stern, Paris Match, Geo, Life, National Geographic, The [London] Sunday Times and DoubleTake. His books of photography include "Parisians," a result of a 25-year love affair with Paris, his adopted home, as well as several collaborations with his twin brother, David Turnley, which include "Beijing Spring," about the events of Tiananmen Square in 1989; "Moments of Revolution," about Eastern European revolutions at the end of the Cold War; and "In Times of War and Peace," a retrospective of 25 years of the brothers' photojournalism. Turnley has received the Overseas Press Club Award for best photographic reporting from abroad in 1989, as well as numerous awards and citations from World Press Photo and Pictures of the Year Competition. Currently, he is documenting major reunions of Harley Davidson bikers worldwide and completing a book that portrays the daily lives of women in 85 countries. Turnley was a 2001 Nieman Fellow. Links |
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Isabel Wilkerson is the first black woman to win a Pulitzer Prize in journalism and the first black American to win a Pulitzer for individual reporting in the 85-year history of the prizes. Her other awards include the George S. Polk Award for coverage of the 1994 Midwest floods and 1994 Journalist of the Year from the National Association of Black Journalists. In 1998, she won a Guggenheim Fellowship. She has taught at Princeton and Northwestern universities. Currently on leave from The New York Times, Wilkerson is writing a book on the migration of African-Americans from the South to the North from the Depression to the 1960's, as seen through the stories of several generations of families. Links |
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Edward O. Wilson is one of America's most prominent scientists. His work combines original and rigorous science, exquisite prose and a commitment to social and environmental causes. He's written two Pulitzer Prize-winning books: "On Human Nature" and, with co-author Bert Holldobler, "The Ants," as well as 22 other books. His most recent book, "The Future of Life," is an elegant, expansive plea for the preservation of Earth's biodiversity. Wilson has won the National Medal of Science, the Crafoord Prize from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and many other prizes. He is Pellegrino University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University. Links |
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Jan Winburn has nurtured and edited narrative writing for more than 20 years at The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Hartford Courant and The Baltimore Sun, where she is assistant managing editor for enterprise. In 1997 she was named one of Times-Mirror's 10 Journalists of the Year for her work in improving writing at The Sun. She edited "The Umpire's Sons" (by Lisa Pollak), which won the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for feature writing, and the serial "A Stage in Their Lives" (by Ken Fuson), which won the 1998 A.S.N.E. Distinguished Writing Award. She has served as a Pulitzer Prize nominating juror and is the editor of "Shop Talk and War Stories: Journalists' Essays on Their Craft," to be published in spring 2003. |
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