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A conversation with Ted Conover about Sing Sing
with Ted Conover on May 31, 2000
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with Ted Conover on May 31, 2000
Ted Conover is an American author and journalist. His first experiment with melding anthropological and journalistic methods resulted in his first-person book, “Rolling Nowhere: Riding the Rails with America’s Hoboes”. His now famous “Coyotes”, in print since 1987, came out in a new edition in 2006 with a new preface and subtitle: “A Journey Across Border With America’s Mexican Migrants.” Much of his work has been published in “The New York Times Magazine”, “The New Yorker” and “The Atlantic Monthly”.
His most recent project was to take a job at Sing Sing prison in New York State, where Connors worked for nearly a year, without the state’s knowledge, as a rookie correction officer. The resulting book, “Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing”, was finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and won the 2000 National Book Critics Circle Award in Nonfiction, among other honors.
Source- Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Conover
