Search results for “so you want to write a book” Showing 999 results Featured Fellow: Darcy Frey Darcy FreyNieman Class of 2011Frey wrote the 1994 book The Last Shot: City Streets, Basketball Dreams, about inner-city basketball players hoping for athletic scholarships to college, and is a contributing… September 23, 2013 Featured Fellow: Susan Orlean Susan OrleanNieman Class of 2004The celebrated author has been a New Yorker staff writer since 1992, and she contributed to the magazine’s Talk of the Town section for five years… September 20, 2013 Featured Fellow: J.R. Moehringer J.R. MoehringerNieman Class of 2001Here’s just some of the telling hardware Moehringer has taken home for his stories: Pulitzer Prize (2000) for feature writing; Pulitzer Prize finalist (1998) for feature… September 18, 2013 Featured Fellow: Elizabeth Leland Elizabeth LelandNieman Class of 1992A Charleston, S.C., native and a longtime Charlottean, Leland has written about the Carolinas way of life for more than 25 years. Charlotte Observer readers know and… September 11, 2013 Featured Fellow: Larry L. King Larry L. KingNieman Class of 1970Some years ago, a lucky young newspaper reporter was granted a Nieman Fellowship to Harvard. Her best mentor and former professor gifted[1] her with a… September 9, 2013 Featured Fellow: Mary Schmich Mary SchmichNieman Class of 1996When the Pulitzer committee awarded Schmich the 2012 prize for commentary, jurors cited the strength of her “wide range of down-to-earth columns that reflect the character… August 27, 2013 Featured Fellow: Gene Weingarten Gene WeingartenNieman Class of 1988Weingarten, of the Washington Post, writes long and short and sad and funny hilarious, and “may be the best writer in American journalism,” as one profiler once… August 26, 2013 Annotation Tuesday! Sebastian Junger and the perfect storm The magazine story behind Sebastian Junger‘s celebrated nonfiction book A Perfect Storm ran in Outside magazine in October 1994. “The Storm” (4,765 words) told the story of the Andrea Gail, a fishing boat out of Gloucester,… August 20, 2013 "Detroit: A love story:" Chuck Salter, Fast Company, and a layered, live-storytelling approach to the tale of a desperate city Fast Company's Chuck Salter recently came up with an innovative way to address the unfolding narrative that is Detroit. The city, long depressed, is now bankrupt. Unemployment stands at double the national rate;… August 16, 2013 Nieman Lab summer reading + Barry Hannah + the brain and dramatic arc + a Japanese pitching sensation + a new board Pinned this week for your storytelling pleasure:The Recommended board has been especially busy:• Our sister pub Nieman Lab has been engaging in a little summer reading from our Nieman Foundation… August 9, 2013 Previous 1 … 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 … 100 Next
