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Ted Conover

Author of Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing

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Ted Conover is a journalist and associate professor of journalism at New York University. His book Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 2000 and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Conover is also the author of Rolling Nowhere: Riding the Rails with America's Hoboes; Coyotes: A Journey Across Borders with America's Mexican Migrants; Whiteout: Lost in Aspen; and The Routes of Man: Travels in the Paved World. He regularly writes for the New York Times, Harper's, the Atlantic, and many other publications. — biography from Immersion: A Writer's Guide to Going Deep (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing)… (more)
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The Moth (Contributor) 268 copies, 7 reviews
Bad Trips (Contributor) 225 copies, 6 reviews
The Art of Fact: A Historical Anthology of Literary Journalism (Contributor) 205 copies, 1 review
The Best American Essays 1994 (Contributor) 174 copies
Travelers' Tales MEXICO : True Stories (Contributor) 60 copies, 1 review
Letter to a Stranger: Essays to the Ones Who Haunt Us (Contributor) 55 copies, 3 reviews
Second Read: Writers Look Back at Classic Works of Reportage (Contributor) 7 copies
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Okinawa, Japan
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Amherst College
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