Surviving Justice

America's Wrongfully Convicted and Exonerated
Herausgeber: Eggers, Dave; Vollen, Lola

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Verso
• Seitenzahl: 496
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. August 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 208mm x 139mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 571g
• ISBN-13: 9781786632333
• ISBN-10: 1786632330
• Artikelnr.: 45612482

Autorenporträt

Lola Vollen is a physician specializing in the aftermath of large-scale human rights abuses. She has worked with survivors of systemic injustices in Somalia, South Africa, Israel, Croatia, and Kosovo. Working with Physicians for Human Rights, she developed Bosnia's mass-grave exhumation and identification program. She is the founder of the Life After Exoneration Program, which helps exonerated prisoners in the United States with their transitions after release. She is a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley's Institute of International Studies, co-editor of the Voice of Witness series, and a practicing clinician. Dave Eggers is the editor of McSweeney's and the author of four books, including What is the What and A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the winner of the Addison Metcalf Award from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. As a journalist, his work has appeared in the the New Yorker, the New York Times, Esquire, the Guardian, and other publications. His first book of oral histories, Teachers Have It Easy: The Big Sacrifices and Small Salaries of America's Teachers--co-edited and co-written with Daniel Moulthrop and Nínive Calegari, appeared in July of 2005. In 2004-2005 he taught a course at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism with Lola Vollen, and co-founded the Voice of Witness series.