Edward Humes

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Edward Humes is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and published non-fiction writer.

1 Biography
2 Books
- 2.1 Non-fiction
- 2.2 True crime
3 External links

[edit] Biography

Humes was born in Philadelphia and attended Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts. In 1985 he moved to Southern California.

In 1989 he received the Pulitzer Prize for specialized reporting for several investigative stories he wrote about the United States military. Afterwards, he began writing non-fiction books.

Cover of School of Dreams.

In 2001, Humes spent a year teaching a writing workshop at Whitney High School in Cerritos, California, a middle-class Los Angeles suburb. His observations while at the school led to his much-applauded narrative non-fiction book School of Dreams, published in 2004.

Since 2001, Humes has worked as a writer for Los Angeles Magazine.

[edit] Books

[edit] Non-fiction

"Monkey Girl: Evolution, Education, Religion, and the Battle for America's Soul," Ecco/HarperCollins, ISBN 9780060885489, [February 2007].

Read an <a href="/cgi-bin/axs/ax.pl?http://edwardhumes.com/books/monkey-girl/">excerpt</a>.

Over Here: How the G.I. Bill Transformed the American Dream, Harcourt, ISBN 0-15-100710-1, October 2006.

Read an <a href="/cgi-bin/axs/ax.pl?http://californiaauthors.com/excerpt-humes-3.shtml">excerpt</a>.

School of Dreams : Making the Grade at a Top American High School, Harcourt/Harvest Books, ISBN 0-15-603007-1, [September 1], 2004.
My California: Journeys by Great Writers, ISBN 1-883318-43-2, [June 2004] (Contributor)

Details: The <a href="/cgi-bin/axs/ax.pl?http://www.mycaliforniaproject.org/">My California Project</a>.

Baby ER: The Heroic Doctors and Nurses Who Perform Medicine's Tiniest Miracles, Simon & Schuster, ISBN B000A9GLXG, May 2004
Mean Justice, Pocket, ISBN 0-671-03427-8, January 1, 2003
No Matter How Loud I Shout: A Year in the Life of Juvenile Court, Simon & Schuster, ISBN 0-684-81195-2, May 7, 1997

[edit] True crime

Mississippi Mud: Southern Justice and the Dixie Mafia, Pocket, ISBN 0-671-53505-6, December 1, 1995
Buried Secrets: A True Story of Serial Murder, New Amer Library, ISBN 0-451-17164-0
Murderer With a Badge|Murderer With a Badge: The Secret Life of a Rogue Cop, E P Dutton, ISBN 0-525-93498-7, November 1, 1992