James Morris

James McGrath Morris’s third biography, Eye on the Struggle: Ethel Payne’s Journey Through the Civil Rights Revolution, will be published in February 2015. His previous work was Pulitzer: A Life in Politics, Print, and Power, which won widespread critical praise from the New York Times to the Los Angeles Times, was selected as one of ten best biographies of the year by Booklist, one of the five best books on an American mogul as well as one of the five best books on newspaper owners by the Wall Street Journal, and one of best books of the year by Jonathan Yardley of the Washington Post.

Over the years Morris has appeared on NPR’s All Things Considered, PBS’s News Hour, and C-Span’s Book TV. He was the founding editor of the monthly Biographer’s Craft and has served as both the executive director and president of Biographers International Organization (BIO). His biography The Rose Man of Sing Sing: A True Tale of Life, Murder, and Redemption in the Age of Yellow Journalism was optioned for a film, with Martin Scorsese as executive producer, and published as an audio book by Random House. The Washington Post selected it as one of the best nonfiction books of 2004
Morris is also the author of Jailhouse Journalism: The Fourth Estate Behind Bars, a history of the extraordinary convicts who wrote and published their own newspapers and magazines behind the walls of the most notorious prisons