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American author
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Female
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(Roanoke)
The details
Biography
Introduction
Beth Macy is an American journalist and non-fiction writer. Her first published book, Factory Man, was a national bestseller.
Early life
Macy grew up in Urbana, Ohio. She received a bachelor's degree in journalism from Bowling Green State University in 1986. She earned a master's degree in creative writing from Hollins University in 1993.
Career
Macy was a reporter for The Roanoke Times from 1989 to 2014. She writes essays and op-eds for The New York Times as well as magazines, radio and online journals. In 2010, she was awarded the Nieman Fellowship for Journalism by Harvard University.
Her 2018 book, Dopesick, was shortlisted for the 2019 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction.
Works
- Factory Man: How One Furniture Maker Battled Offshoring, Stayed Local — and Helped Save an American Town(2014, Little Brown & Co., ISBN 9780316231435, OCLC 1003808101)
- Truevine: Two Brothers, a Kidnapping, and a Mother's Quest: A True Story of the Jim Crow South(2016, Little, Brown & Co., ISBN 9780316337540, OCLC 971462415)
- Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America (2018, Little, Brown & Co., ISBN 9780316551243, OCLC 1043454094)