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The Best American Newspaper Narratives, Volume 3 (Paperback)
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The Best American Newspaper Narratives, Volume 3 (Paperback)
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This anthology collects the ten winners of the 2014 BestAmerican
Newspaper Narrative Writing Contest, run by theMayborn Literary
Nonfiction Conference. The event is hostedby the Frank W. Mayborn
Graduate Institute of Journalism atthe University of North Texas.
The contest honors exemplarynarrative work and encourages narrative
nonfiction storytelling atnewspapers across the United States.
First place winner: Dan Barry, "The Boys in the Bunkhouse,"
published by The New York Times, exposed thirty years of physical
and mental abuse of intellectually disabled men living in an Iowa
group home. Second place: Christopher Goffard, "The Favor,"
published bythe Los Angeles Times, describes the plea bargain
sentence of the son of a former California assembly speaker, after
the son pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter, and whose prison
sentence was later reduced by then-California Gov. Arnold
Schwarzenegger. Third place: Stephanie McCrummen, "A Father's
Scars," published by the Washington Post, about a Virginia state
senator one year after he was stabbed multiple times by his
mentally ill son before he son killed himself. Runners-up include
Nathan Bomey, John Gallagher and MarkStryker, "How Detroit was
Reborn" (Detroit Free Press); Monica Hesse, "Love and Fire"
(Washington Post); Sarah Schweitzer, "Chasing Bayla" (Boston
Globe); Sarah Kleiner Varble, "Then the Walls Closed In"
(TheVirginian Pilot); Janie Bryant and Joanne Kimberlin, "Dangerous
Minds" (The Virginian Pilot); Molly Harbarger, "Fred Nelligan"
(Oregonian); and Mark Johnson, "Murray's Problem" (Milwaukee
Journal Sentinel).
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