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James McGrath Morris spent five years working on Pulitzer: A
Life in Politics, Print, and Power. His previous book, The Rose
Man of Sing Sing: A True Tale of Life, Murder, and
Redemption, was selected as a Washington Post Best Book of
the Year for 2004 and was optioned as a film.

Morris is also the author of Jailhouse Journalism: The Fourth
Estate Behind Bars, which told the story of the extraordinary
inmates in American prisons who published their own newspapers.

Aside from books, his writing has appeared in numerous
newspapers and magazines including, among others, The
Washington Post, The New York Observer, The Progressive,
Civilization, and The Wilson Quarterly. He is also the editor of
the monthly Biographer's Craft and one of the founding members
of Biographers International Organization.

Morris earned his bachelor's degree from American University and
his master's from George Washington University. He spent a
decade as a journalist, a decade working in the book and magazine
business, and a decade as a high school teacher.

Morris lives in Tesuque, New Mexico with his wife Patty McGrath
Morris. His children live in Boston, Providence, and Washington,
DC.