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Award-Winning Journalist & Author of The Family Roe
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For more than twenty years, Joshua Prager, a former senior writer for The Wall Street Journal, has written about historical secrets—revealing all from the hidden scheme that led to baseball’s most famous moment (Bobby Thomson’s “Shot Heard Round the World”) to the only-ever anonymous recipient of a Pulitzer Prize (a photographer he tracked down in Iran). His work, described by George Will as “exemplary journalistic sleuthing,” has shed new light on our cultural touchstones. So does his new book, The Family Roe, illuminating unknown stories and people behind Roe v. Wade, and enabling the public, for the first time, to see the abortion debate in America in its full social and personal context. The book was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and has been embraced by people on both sides of the abortion issue. Peggy Noonan wrote in the Wall Street Journal that it was “stupendous, a masterwork of reporting,” while The New York Times Book Review called it “an honest glimpse into the American soul.”
Joshua’s first book, The Echoing Green, was a Washington Post Best Book of the Year. The New York Times Book Review called it “a revelation and a page turner, a group character study unequaled in baseball writing since Roger Kahn’s Boys of Summer some three decades ago.”
His second book, 100 YEARS, a collaboration with Milton Glaser, the legendary graphic designer who created the I♥NY logo, is a list of literary quotations on every age from birth to one hundred. Wrote the New York Times Book Review: “As the pages pass, there is an increasingly wistful sense of what time takes from us.”
Joshua has spoken at venues including TED and Google. He was a Nieman fellow at Harvard and a Fulbright Distinguished Chair at Hebrew University. He lives in New Jersey with his wife and two daughters.
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In search for the man who broke my neck | Joshua Prager
Joshua Prager, author of "The Family Roe," on finding "Jane Roe's" daughters
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