R. Gregory Nokes

R. Gregory Nokes is a former reporter and editor for The Associated Press and The Oregonian. With The AP, he served as a foreign correspondent in Latin America and later as a diplomatic correspondent covering presidential and diplomatic trips abroad. His travels as a journalist took him to more than 50 countries, including three trips to China. He retired in 2003 from The Oregonian to begin a second career as an author and lecturer on the experience of immigrant Chinese laborers in the Pacific Northwest during the latter decades of the 19th century. His work in uncovering details of the virtually forgotten 1887 massacre of as many as 34 Chinese gold miners in Hells Canyon resulted in the formal naming of the massacre site as Chinese Massacre Cove by the United States Board on Geographic Names. A native of Portland, Nokes attended Willamette University, earning a BA degree, and later attended Harvard University as a Nieman Fellow. He and his wife, Candise, live in West Linn, Oregon.