My Long Trip Home: A Family Memoir

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.

In a dramatic, moving work of historical reporting and personal discovery, 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: Mark Whitaker
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 01/29/2013
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.00h x 5.90w x 1.10d
ISBN13: 9781451627558
ISBN10: 1451627556
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs

About the Author
Mark Whitaker is the author of the critically acclaimed memoir, My Long Trip Home, and Smoketown: The Untold Story of the Other Great Black Renaissance. The former managing editor of CNN Worldwide, he was previously the Washington bureau chief for NBC News and a reporter and editor at Newsweek, where he rose to become the first African-American leader of a national newsweekly.