What’s On Your bookshelf?
Many reporters have written books. These works of fiction and non-fiction were written by a variety of people who have worked for news organizations. Whether they are worth recommending is for you to discover, as one or two of these books may be a little intense, but it does show how the path of journalism can take writers down different roads.
| Tom Brokaw NBC News |
The Greatest Generation (1998) An Album of Memories (2001) |
| Carl Hiaasen Miami Herald |
Tourist Season (1986) |
| Ernest Hemingway foreign correspondent for American newspapers |
The Sun Also Rises (1926) A Farewell to Arms (1929) For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) |
| Lt. Gen. Hal Moore and Joe Galloway Galloway is senior military correspondent Knight Ridder Newspapers |
We Were Soldiers Once… and Young (1993) |
| George Plimpton freelance journalist |
Paper Lion(1966) |
| Eric Severeid CBS News |
Not So Wild a Dream (1946) |
| Calvin Trillin The New Yorker Time |
Travels with Alice (1989) The Tummy Trilogy(1994) Feeding a Yen (2003) |
| Tom Wolfe Washington Post New York Herald Tribune |
The Right Stuff (1979) Bonfire of the Vanities (1987) |
