My Long Trip Home: A Family Memoir - Paperback

by Mark Whitaker (Author)

In a dramatic, moving work, Mark Whitaker, award-winning journalist, sets out to trace the story of what happened to his parents, a fascinating but star-crossed interracial couple, and arrives at a new understanding of the family dramas that shaped their lives--and his own.

Author Biography

Mark Whitaker was born outside of Philadelphia, raised by a single mother in southeastern Massachusetts, and attended Harvard College and Oxford University as a Marshall Scholar. He worked for twenty-five years at Newsweek, rising to become the magazine's first African American top editor (1998-2006). Subsequently, Whitaker worked in television news as Washington Bureau Chief for NBC News and Managing Editor of CNN Worldwide. He is currently an Emmy Award-winning Contributing Correspondent for CBS Sunday Morning. Whitaker's first book, My Long Trip Home, was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and he has since written four more books. He is a judge for the Peabody Awards, the John Chancellor Award, and was previously a juror for the duPont/Columbia Awards. Mark Whitaker is married with two adult children and resides in Manhattan and Woodstock, New York.