Mark Whitaker

My Long Trip Home

A Family Memoir

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Originally published in hardcover in 2011.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon & Schuster
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 150mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9781451627558
• ISBN-10: 1451627556
• Artikelnr.: 35216311

Autorenporträt

Mark Whitaker was born outside of Philadelphia, raised by a single mother in southeastern Massachusetts, and attended Harvard College and Oxford University as a Marshall Scholar. He worked for twenty-five years at Newsweek, rising to become the magazine's first African American top editor (1998–2006). Subsequently, Whitaker worked in television news as Washington Bureau Chief for NBC News and Managing Editor of CNN Worldwide. He is currently an Emmy Award–winning Contributing Correspondent for CBS Sunday Morning. Whitaker’s first book, My Long Trip Home, was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and he has since written four more books. He is a judge for the Peabody Awards, the John Chancellor Award, and was previously a juror for the duPont/Columbia Awards. Mark Whitaker is married with two adult children and resides in Manhattan and Woodstock, New York.