Jack Fuller is a graduate of Northwestern University and Yale Law School. He has published seven critically acclaimed novels and one book of non-fiction about journalism. He has been a legal affairs writer, a war correspondent in Vietnam, a Washington correspondent, and a Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial writer. At the age of 16, he began as a copy boy for the Chicago Tribune. Along the way he has worked for the Washington Post, Chicago Daily News, City News Bureau of Chicago, and Pacific Stars and Stripes. He left journalism for law briefly when U.S. Attorney General Edward Levi asked him to serve as his special assistant in the Department of Justice. At the Chicago Tribune he served as editor of the editorial page, editor, and publisher. When he retired, he was president of Tribune Publishing Co.
Three of his novels have been included in the University of Chicago Press’s distinguished Phoenix Fiction series. In 2005 he retired from
a career in newspapers to concentrate on book writing.
He lives in Chicago, Illinois with his wife, Debra Moskovits.
His upcoming book is What Is Happening to News will be tentatively released in May.
Listen as he reads some of his recent work. [download]
