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Dan Barry (born 1958) is a longtime reporter and columnist for The New York Times. He is the author of five books, including This Land: America, Lost and Found, a collection of his national columns for The Times that was published in 2018. Biography Barry, whose father was from Brooklyn and whose mother was from County Galway, Ireland, was born in Queens, N.Y., and raised in Deer Park, N.Y. He graduated from St. Anthony's High School (now in Huntington, N.Y.) in 1976, when it was an all-boys high school in Smithtown, N.Y. His experiences at St. Anthony's figure in his memoir, Pull Me Up. He graduated from St. Bonaventure University in 1980 with a bachelor's degree in mass communications and received a master's degree in journalism from New York University.In 1983, after years working as a delicatessen clerk and ditch digger, Barry joined The Journal Inquirer in Manchester, Conn., as a reporter, and moved to the Providence Journal-Bulletin in 1987. In 1992, he won a shared Polk Award for investigating the causes of a state banking crisis. In 1994, he was part of a Journal-Bulletin investigative team that won the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting after exposing corruption in the Rhode Island court system. Barry joined The New York Times in 1995. He served as Long Island bureau chief, police bureau chief, City Hall bureau chief, and general assignment reporter for the Metropolitan desk before resurrecting the "About New York column" in 2003. Then, in 2007, he began the "This Land" column, which took him to all 50 states over the course of a decade. He now specializes in long-form narratives. His writing also appears in several non-fiction anthologies. Personal life Barry lives in Maplewood, NJ, with his wife, Mary Trinity, and two daughters, Nora and Grace. Awards 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting for exposing corruption in the Rhode Island court system Pulitzer finalist in 2006, for his coverage of post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans and life in New York City Pulitzer finalist in 2010, for his coverage of how the Great Recession changed lives and relationships in America 1992 shared Polk Award for investigating the causes of a state banking crisis 2003 American Society of Newspaper Editors Award for deadline reporting, for his coverage of the first anniversary of Sept. 11 the 2005 Mike Berger Award, which honors in-depth human interest reporting the 2010 Sigma Delta Chi Award for column writing from the Society for Professional Journalists 2015 Best American Newspaper Narrative award In May 2016, Barry was given an honorary doctorate by his alma mater, St. Bonaventure University, after which he delivered the commencement address for the graduating class of 2016. In 2018, Barry was named recipient of the Story in the Public Square, awarded by the Pell Center for International Relations and Public PolicyBibliography · Pull Me Up (2004) — memoir of Barry's Long Island Irish Catholic upbringing and battle with cancer · City Lights: Stories About New York (2007) — collection of Barry's "About New York" columns · Bottom of the 33rd: Hope, Redemption, and Baseball’s Longest Game (HarperCollins, 2011; paperback March 2012) — about the longest game in professional baseball history · The Boys in the Bunkhouse: Servitude and Salvation in the Heartland (HarperCollins, 2016) – about the exploitation of a group of Texas men with intellectual disability who worked for decades in a turkey-processing plant in eastern Iowa · This Land: America, Lost and Found (Black Dog & Leventhal, 2018) – a collection of Barry's national "This Land" columns. References External links Barry bio on The New York Times website Barry's New York Times columns. Discover the Dan Barry popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Dan Barry books.

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    Storm Front

    Leo J Maloney

    The second installment in acclaimed BlackOps thriller author Leo J. Maloney’s spinoff series featuring Alex Morgan, daughter of Zeta operative Dan Morgan. STORM FRONT  Ar...

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    The Football 100

    The Athletic

    A masterful ode to America’s gameand an unforgettable portrait of its greatest legends written by America’s best sportswriters.It is a question that has bedeviled football fans for...

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    The Untamed

    Max Brand

    Nobody really knows Dan Barry, not even Old Joe Cumberland, who found him as a boy wandering alone in the desert and raised him as a son. Slight of build, mild of manner and voice,...

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    The Seventh Man

    Max Brand

    Whistling Dan Barry, along with his wild stallion and fearsome wolfdog, saved Vic Gregg's life. Now Vic must betray him, but ultimately it is up to someone much closer to Dan B...

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    The Essential Max Brand - 29 Westerns in One Edition

    Max Brand & Frederick Schiller Faust

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    The Forsyte Saga

    John Galsworthy

    In this final volume of The Forsyte Saga Galsworthy writes about the lives and loves of the Cherrell family, cousins of the Forsytes. For centuries, the Cherrell sons have left the...

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    This Land

    Dan Barry

    A landmark collection by New York Times journalist Dan Barry, selected from a decade of his distinctive "This Land" columns and presenting a powerful but rarely seen portrait of Am...

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    The Essential Max Brand - 29 Westerns in One Edition

    Max Brand & Frederick Schiller Faust

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    Daisy and the Trouble with Life

    Kes Gray

    The trouble with life is it's SOOOOOOOOO unfair. Daisy's been grounded. No HOPPING or SKIPPING, FLYING or PARACHUTING. She's lucky she's even been allowed out of he...

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    The Forsyte Saga

    John Galsworthy

    In this second part of John Galworthy's trilogy of love, power, money and family feuding, a new generation has arrived to divide the Forsyte clan with society scandals and conflict...

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    Complete Dan Barry Western Adventure Romance of Max Brand

    Max Brand

    An American author known primarily for his thoughtful and literary Westerns under the pen name Max Brand. His other pseudonyms include George Owen Baxter, Evan Evans, George Evans,...

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    Chess

    Stefan Zweig

    '... a human being, an intellectual human being who constantly bends the entire force of his mind on the ridiculous task of forcing a wooden king into the corner of a wooden board,...

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    The Untamed

    Max Brand

    With uncanny abilities, Whistlin' Dan Berry keeps the toughest of situations under control. The protagonist of Brand’s first western novel was radically different from earlier,...

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    MAX BRAND Premium Collection

    Max Brand & Frederick Schiller Faust

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    Mountain Made

    Max Brand

    Winsor Glanvil pays court to Louise Carney, heiress to a fortune, and she agrees to marry him. The marriage is opposed by big Jack Rutledge, a jealous rival and formidable foe, so ...

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    The Seventh Man

    Max Brand

    Dan Barry returns for his final adventure; strong, alone, righter of wrongsjust don't get on his bad sideor you’ll end up dead (or worse). This excellently written story is jam...

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    Blast Wave

    Leo J Maloney

    From the clandestine corridors of power in London to Tokyo’s historic underground, Alex Morgan fights The newest installment in acclaimed BlackOps thriller author Leo J. Malon...

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    The Aztec

    Bill Vidal

    1936. As General Franco's Nationalists march on Madrid in the early stages of the Spanish Civil War, the Republican government authorises the evacuation of the country's gold reser...

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    The Decisive Mind

    Sheheryar Banuri

    Available now: a new model for understanding and optimising your decision making skills by a leading behavioural economistHave you ever set yourself a goal but struggled to achieve...

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    The Night Horseman

    Max Brand

    Old Joe Cumberland is dying, and hanging on in hopes of seeing his foster son before he goes. But Whistling Dan Barry is gone, lost somewhere in the vast mountaindesert, an enigmat...

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    The Night Horseman

    Max Brand

    When a youth with superhuman strength and the ability to talk to animals enters Dan Barry’s life, you can be assured things get interesting! East meets the Wild West in this violen...