Awards
Mike
Winerip led a team of New York Times reporters who won the 2001
Pulitzer Prize for their series, "How Race is Lived in America." For
his story he spent a year with a police undercover narcotics team based
in Harlem following them as they knocked down doors to do drug raids,
interrogated informants in the back rooms of precinct houses and staked
out high crime neighborhoods. The year before his expose on the New
York state mental health system in the New York Times magazine was a
finalist for the Pulitzer in explanatory journalism. His 1994
nonfiction book, "9
Highland Road" about community housing for the mentally ill
was an American Library Association book of the year and a finalist for
the PEN Nonfiction Award.
all three books in the series.
Of the Slash | Watch Your Back | The Last Reporter
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