Michael Capuzzo

Michael Capuzzo is an American journalist and author best known for his New York Times-bestselling nonfiction books The Murder Room and Close to Shore. Capuzzo was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and raised in the Boston area before he studied journalism at Northwestern University in Illinois. He was a reporter with the Miami Herald before joining the Philadelphia Inquirer, where he received four Pulitzer Prize nominations before becoming a freelance writer. He earned an MFA in creative nonfiction from Goucher College in Maryland in 2011, during which time he completed The Murder Room and was mentored by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Thomas French. Capuzzo is also the author of four books about animals.

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