Barry Werth

Barry Werth is an American author and journalist. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, GQ, the Smithsonian,[1] and the MIT Technology Review.[2] He has also served as an instructor in journalism at Smith College, Mount Holyoke College, and Boston University.[1]

Werth received a Stonewall Book Award in 2002 for The Scarlet Professor, his biography of Newton Arvin, a literary critic who was publicly forced into retirement in 1960 during an anti-pornography drive by the US Post Office.[3] The book was later adapted into the documentary film The Great Pink Scare.[4] His book Damages is commonly used as a case study for teaching medical malpractice in law schools.[5][6]

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  1. 1.0 1.1 "Barry Werth". Simon & Schuster. 2014. Retrieved 2014-01-25.
  2. "Barry Werth and The Antidote: Reporting from Inside the World of Big Pharma". Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 2014. Retrieved 2014-01-25.
  3. Page, Elaine Fetyko (May 5, 2008). "Stonewall Book Award Winners". Elmhurst College Library. Retrieved 2014-01-23.
  4. Yourgrau, Tug (2014). "Filmmaker Q&A: The Great Pink Scare". Independent Television Services. Retrieved 2014-01-23.
  5. Baker, Tom (2002). "Teaching Real Torts: Using Barry Werth's Damages in the Law School Classroom". Nevada Law Journal. Retrieved 2014-01-25.
  6. Daily, Melody (2004). "Damages: Using a Case Study to Teach Law, Lawyering, and Dispute Resolution". Journal of Dispute Resolution. Retrieved 2014-01-25.