{"product_id":"9781574416701","title":"The Best American Newspaper Narratives, Volume 4","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis anthology collects the ten winners of the 2016 Best American Newspaper Narrative Writing Contest at the Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference, an event hosted by the Frank W. Mayborn Graduate Institute of Journalism at the University of North Texas.\u003cbr\u003e -First place winner: Stephanie McCrummen, “An American Void” (\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e), focused on the friends of the alleged murderer of nine members of Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, North Carolina.\u003cbr\u003e -Second place: Christopher Goffard, “Fleeing Syria: The Choice” (\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e), is about a former dressmaker from Syria gaining asylum in Sweden for her family, but her husband and children were still in Turkey.\u003cbr\u003e -Third place: Sarah Schweitzer, “The Life and Times of Strider Wolf” (\u003ci\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e), documented the difficult life of a six-year-old boy and his brother, who were rescued from near-fatal abuse and sent to live with their grandparents in campgrounds in Maine.\u003cbr\u003e -Runners-up include Cynthia Hubert, “Genny’s World” (\u003ci\u003eSacramento Bee\u003c\/i\u003e); Michael M. Phillips, “Inside an FBI Hostage Crisis” (\u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e); Mark Johnson, “Patient, Surgeon Work Together” (\u003ci\u003eMilwaukee Journal Sentinel\u003c\/i\u003e); Howard Reich, “Norman Malone’s Quest” (\u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e); John Woodrow Cox, “Telling JJ” (\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e); Maria Cramer, “The Boy Who Burned Inside” (\u003ci\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e); and Gina Barton, “Unsolved: A Murdered Teen, a 40-year Mystery” (\u003ci\u003eMilwaukee Journal Sentinel\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of North Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47050341712112,"sku":"9781574416701","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781574416701_p0.jpg?v=1763782624","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781574416701","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}