Tucson Festival of Books

The Path To and From Prison


In today's session, true crime authors Lisa Belkin and Barbara Bradley Hagerty will a discuss a case of a young cop's murder by a prisoner on parole... and another of a man falsely imprisoned for thirty years for murder.


Panelists
Lisa Belkin

Lisa Belkin is a former New York Times reporter who now teaches at the Columbia School of Journalism and authors narrative nonfiction. Her most recent book, "Genealogy of a Murder," explores the killing of a police officer in Connecticut in 1960....

Barbara Bradley Hagerty

Barbara Bradley Hagerty is an award-winning journalist at The Atlantic and formerly of National Public Radio. She is the author of the New York Times-bestselling "Fingerprints of God and Life Reimagined....

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Books:
Genealogy of a Murder
Four Generations, Three Families, One Fateful Night
Lisa Belkin
True Crime
W. W. Norton, Incorporated
June 2024
ISBN 9781324076124
432 pages
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Bringing Ben Home
A Murder, a Conviction, and the Fight to Redeem American Justice
Barbara Bradley Hagerty
True Crime
Penguin Publishing Group
August 2024
ISBN 9780593420089
464 pages
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