Presenters

Jacqui Banaszynski is the assistant managing editor / Sunday at The Seattle Times, and holds the Knight Chair in Journalism at the University of Missouri School of Journalism. She's spent several decades as a beat and enterprise reporter, and a projects editor. Her series in the St. Paul Pioneer Press "AIDS in the Heartland" - an intimate look at the life and death of a gay farm couple -- won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize in feature writing and a national Distinguished Service Award from the Society of Professional Journalists. She also won an AP Sports Editors deadline writing contest with a story from the 1988 Summer Olympics. Her work has exposed a fraudulent developer, explored the plight of Kurdish refugees in Iraq and followed a dogsled expedition across Antarctica. As an editor at The Oregonian, Banaszynski edited work by Tom Hallman Jr.. She also has served as a Pulitzer juror.

Rick Bragg, a 1996 Pulitzer Prize winner for feature writing, has been a national correspondent for The New York Times since October 1994. He is based in New Orleans since November 2000 after having served as Miami Bureau chief in 1999. Previously, he was a domestic correspondent in the Times's Atlanta office from 1994 to 1999. Prior to joining The Times, Bragg worked at the Los Angeles Times, St. Petersburg Times, and Birmingham News. His memoir, All Over But the Shoutin', became a bestseller and New York Times Notable Book of the Year in 1997. In 2000, he published Somebody Told Me: The Newspaper Stories of Rick Bragg. His new book is Ava's Man. Bragg was a 1992 Nieman Fellow.

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Jim Collins, in January 2000, became the third editor in Yankee magazine's 65-year-history. Following an "intensive strategic repositioning" process, he left this past September.

Over the previous 15 years, he was managing editor, senior associate editor, field editor, and editor-at-home of Yankee Homes. He has written one book, Mentors, and scores of magazine articles for Reader's Digest, Outside, Glamour, The Old Farmer's Almanac and The Sun literary journal. His Yankee profile of former Red Sox pitcher Bill Lee and his account of his canoe voyage home following his freshman year at Dartmouth were noted in the annual Best Sportswriting in America anthology . He is now at work on a narrative book about a minor-league baseball team.

Last Ride to Berlin
Never Enough Basketball
Beating the Cold to Katahdin
Close Encounters of the Furred Kind
Still Spaceman After All These Years

Morgan Entrekin is 45 years old and has been an editor in book publishing for more than 20 years. After graduating from Stanford, 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 books by Richard Ford, Bret Easton Ellis, and Dr. Michael Debakey.

In 1984, he started his own imprint at Atlantic Monthly Press. Authors he published included P.J. O'Rourke, Rian Malan, Richard Preston, Cynthia Heimel, and Francisco Goldman.

In 1991, Morgan with a group of investors, acquired Atlantic Monthly Press. In 1993, he merged the company with Grove Press. Entrekin is currently the president and publisher of Grove/Atlantic, Inc., which publishes 75 to 80 titles a year. Among the authors published are Kenzaburo Oe, Sherman Alexie, Will Self, Fay Weldon, and Charles Frazier.

Jon Franklin, as a reporter for The Sun of Baltimore, won the first Pulitzer prizes ever awarded in the categories of feature writing (1979) and explanatory journalism (1985). He is the founder and moderator of WriterL, a subscription-only listserver for writers. His books include The Molecules of the Mind and Writing for Story. He is the Philip Merrill professor of journalism at the University of Maryland's Philip Merrill School of Journalism.

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Tom French has been the staff writer at the St. Petersburg Times for 19 years, and, for the past decade, he has worked as project reporter, specializing in serial narratives. For his work on Angels & Demons he received the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for feature writing. Other projects have included A Cry in the Night, and South Heaven, both of which were later published as books.

The Saboteur and His Son
Angels & Demons

Ira Glass is the host and producer of public radio's program This American Life. A Chicago-based experiment in radio veritÈ, This American Life combines found tapes, monologues, documentaries, short fiction and musical interludes on Chicago's public radio station, WBEZ. The show premiered in 1995 and quickly won a Peabody Award. It went national in 1996 and is now heard on more than 300 public stations. The show's founder and host, Glass began his career as an intern at National Public Radio when he was 19, working for All Things Considered and Morning Edition.

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Stan Grossfeld is associate editor, formerly director of photography of The Boston Globe. Grossfeld received consecutive Pulitzer prizes in 1984 and 1985 for his work in Ethiopia, at the U.S.-Mexican border, and in Lebanon. He won two consecutive Overseas Press Club Awards, first for best photographic reporting from abroad, then for "human compassion" for his work in Ethiopia.

Grossfeld started with the Star-Ledger in Newark, New Jersey in 1973. Since joining the Globe in 1975, he has been named New England Photographer of the Year five times.

A graduate of Boston University, he is the author of Nantucket: The Other Season; and editor of The Eyes of the Globe; and co-authored, with Globe reporter Wil Haygood, Two on the River, the story of their journey down the Mississippi River.

Adam Hochschild began work as a newspaper reporter in San Francisco, then was a co-founder of Mother Jones magazine. His five books include Half the Way Home: a Memoir of Father and Son; Finding the Trapdoor: Essays, Portraits, Travels, which won the PEN/Spielvogel-Diamonstein Award for the Art of the Essay; and King Leopold's Ghost: a Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Awards, and won a J. Anthony Lukas Prize and other awards in the U.S. 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 in India.

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Steven A. Holmes is an editor in the Washington Bureau of The New York Times. Prior to becoming an editor, he was a reporter in the bureau for 11 years, during which time he covered race and demographic issues, Congress, Pat Buchanan's and Ross Perot's presidential runs, as well as the State Department. He wrote some of the articles and helped edit many others in the Times's 15-part series "How Race Is Lived In America," which won a Pulitzer Prize this year. He's been a national correspondent for Time Magazine, writing about politics, agriculture, the '84 Olympics, finance, the Supreme Court, and the Justice Department. He's also worked for the Atlanta Constitution, and UPI. He graduated from City College and from the Michele Clark Memorial Program for Minority Journalists. He paid for college by driving a New York City cab, and calls that his "second best job ever."

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Mark Kramer has written articles for The Boston Globe, Atlantic Monthy, National Geographic, N.Y. Times Magazine, and Outside, etc. 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 Narrative Journalism Program. He was writer in residence and professor of journalism at Boston University from 1991-2001 and taught at Smith College for a decade before that.

Jill Lepore, associate professor of history at Boston University, is the author of two books, The Name of War: King Philip's War and the American Imagination, which won the Bancroft Prize and the Ralph Waldo Emerson Award; and A is for American: Letters and Other Characters in the Newly United States. She has also written articles for The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times, lectured extensively on history and language, and written and consulted for several public history projects. Lepore earned her bachelor's in English from Tufts University, graduating Magna cum Laude in 1987, and then went on to earn an M.A. in American Culture from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and an M.Phil as well as a Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale University.

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Stewart O'Nan has written several acclaimed novels including Everyday People, The Speed Queen, A World Away, The Names of the Dead and Snow Angels. In a New York Times Book Review, Edward Hoagland described O'Nan's nonfiction book, The Circus Fire, as "...journalism in the service of literature, literature in the service of history." His articles have appeared in Outside, the Oxford American, The Boston Globe, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Die Welt, Suddeutsche Zeitung and Liberation.

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Chip Scanlan is reporting, writing and editing group leader at The Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg, Florida. He has been a reporter for the Providence Journal, feature writer for the St. Petersburg Times and national correspondent for Knight-Ridder Newspapers. His articles, essays and short stories have appeared in many magazines and anthologies, including The Washington Post Magazine, Writer, Mississippi Review, The Boston Globe Magazine, and Salon. He edited Best Newspaper Writing 2000 and is author of Reporting and Writing: Basics for the 21st Century.

Gay Talese, credited by Tom Wolfe for creating "The New Journalism" is the best selling author of several nonfiction books, including Fame and Obscurity, an anthology of his articles from Esquire Magazine; Unto the Sons, a historical memoir; The Kingdom and the Power chronicling the history and influence of the New York Times; Honor Thy Father, the story of a mafia family; The Bridge, a book about the construction of a bridge between Brooklyn and Staten Island; New York - A Serendipiter's Journey, a collection of essays and anecdotes about the Big Apple. Talese was the first Kelly Writers House Fellow in the University of Pennsylvania's English Department. He is married to Nan Talese and they have two daughters.

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Nan Talese, a senior vice president at Doubleday, is also the publisher and editorial director of her own literary imprint Nan A. Talese/Doubleday. Before joining Doubleday she was an editor at Random House, where she started her career, Simon and Schuster and Houghton Mifflin. Over the years she has edited and published The Prince of Tides and Beach Music by Pat Conroy; The Handmaid's Tale and Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood; Back in the World by Tobias Wolff; The Blood of Abraham by Jimmy Carter; First Lady from Plains by Rosalyn Carter; Sacred Hunger by Barry Unsworth; Amsterdam by Ian McEwan; How the Irish Saved Civilization by Thomas Cahill and many other books of fiction and nonfiction by acclaimed authors. She is married to Gay Talese and they have two daughters.

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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 84-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 by the National Association of Black Journalists. In 1998, she won a Guggenheim Fellowship. She has taught at Princeton and at 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 and their migrations.

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