James Mcgrath Morris author biography, plus links to books by James Mcgrath Morris.

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James Mcgrath Morris

James McGrath Morris spent five years working on Pulitzer: A Life in Politics, Print, and Power. His previous book, The Rose Man of Sing Sing: A True Tale of Life, Murder, and Redemption in the Age of Yellow Journalism, was selected as a Washington Post Best Book of the Year for 2004 and was optioned as a film and released as an audio book.

Morris is also the author of Jailhouse Journalism: The Fourth Estate Behind Bars, which told the story of the extraordinary inmates in American prisons who published their own newspapers.
    
Aside from books, his writing has appeared in numerous newspapers and magazines, including, among others, The Washington Post, The New York Observer, The Progressive, Civilization, and The Wilson Quarterly.

This biography was last updated on 02/01/2010.

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