Search Directory Calendars Admissions ... Faculty 2002 Faculty August 14 to 25, 2002 NONFICTION Ted Conover's Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing describes his rookie year as a corrections officer inside storied Sing Sing prison. Winner of the 2000 National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Newjack was excerpted in the New Yorker and banned by the New York State Department of Correctional Services. Conover, whose writings are frequently based on first-hand participation, is also the author of the nonfiction narratives R olling Nowhere: Riding the Rails with America's Hoboes Coyotes , and Whiteout . He contributes to the New York Times Magazine and many other publications. He lives in Riverdale, New York. Terry Tempest Williams 's most recent book is Red: Passion and Patience in the Desert Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Space is a classic of environmental literature. Her other books include Pieces of White Shell Coyote's Canyon An Unspoken Hunger Desert Quartet , and Leap . Her work has appeared in the New Yorker , the Nation Outside Audubon Parabola , the Utne Reader , the Iowa Review , and Best American Essays . She has been a fellow of the Guggenheim and Lannan foundations and a recipient of the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Award. She lives with her husband, Brooke Williams, in Grand Country, Utah. | |
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