What are your favorite nonfiction books by journalists?
(And should your own book be on that list?)
By the time Jerry Mitchell’s book was published in 2020, I’d already spent several years covering his work reviving cold cases. “Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens the Unsolved Murder Cases of the Civil Rights Era” quickly became one of my favorite nonfiction books written by a journalist.
I appreciated how he showed the grueling, day-to-day work local journalism requires, and how many layers of people fought him in revealing the despicable work of the Ku Klux Klan.
Ahead of our second Breaking Into Books, a nonfiction book writing workshop with retired Columbia University professor and journalist Sam Freedman, I asked a few of our instructors and guest speakers about their favorite nonfiction books by journalists.
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