Ted Conover

Ted Conover is the author of several books including Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing (winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize) and Rolling Nowhere: Riding the Rails with America's Hoboes. His writing has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, Harper's and National Geographic. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, he is director of the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute of New York University. He lives in New York City.