![]() ![]() Her second book, "Truevine: Two Brothers, a Kidnapping, and a Mother's Quest: A True Story of the Jim Crow South", was published by Little, Brown and debuted on the NYT Bestseller list in October 2016, and tells the story of George and Willie Muse, two Black albinos who were kidnapped and sold into servitude with the circus, where they became international stars with the Ringling Brothers and other well known circuses and sideshows of in the 1920s. Anthony Lukas Word-in-Progress award for "Factory Man: How One Furniture Maker Battled Offshoring, Stayed Local - and Helped Save an American Town," published by Little, Brown and Company in July 2014. Her writing has won more than a dozen national journalism awards, including a Nieman Fellowship for Journalism at Harvard and the 2013 J. For three decades, she has reported from Roanoke, Va., where she has long reported on outsiders and underdogs. Seek out mentors, peers and partners who support you.Ĭall on a wide variety of sources and look for the overlooked ones everyone else missed.īeth Macy is a Virginia-based journalist and the author of three bestselling books, “Factory Man,” “Truevine,” and “Dopesick,” the latter of which is currently being made into a limited television series for Hulu. ![]()
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