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About Chip JonesPULITZER-NOMINATED JOURNALIST & AUTHOR
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I spent nearly thirty years as a newspaper or magazine editor in Virginia, and have written guest columns for The Washington Post, Time.com, and George Washington University’s History News Network. As a reporter for The Roanoke Times, I was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize as part of a team reporting on the Pittston coal strike. I’m also the former communications director of the Richmond Academy of Medicine, which is where I first discovered the story behind The Organ Thieves.
The book received the Library of Virginia’s Literary Award for Nonfiction and was chosen as the 2022 Common Book for all first-year students at Virginia Commonwealth University. It has become an invaluable resource for medical schools and other organizations exploring the history of racism and current inequities in America’s health care system.
The Organ Thieves was favorably reviewed or featured by Scientific American, Good Housekeeping, Smithsonianmagazine.com, The Richmond Free Press, and the Virginian-Pilot, among others. I’ve appeared on numerous critically-acclaimed programs, from Pod Save the People with DeRay McKesson to regional stations on NPR, PBS, CBS and NBC. The book continues to draw attention, such as a 2022 article in Politico.
Plans are underway for a podcast based on the book. Even as The Organ Thieves keeps being discovered by readers, writers, and professors alike, I’m most heartened by the fact that the story of the horrific injustice perpetrated upon Bruce Tucker – with the taking of his heart in 1968 with neither his prior consent nor his family’s – has become part of the national conversation about racial reckoning. Of course there’s more work to be done, so stay tuned!
The book received the Library of Virginia’s Literary Award for Nonfiction and was chosen as the 2022 Common Book for all first-year students at Virginia Commonwealth University. It has become an invaluable resource for medical schools and other organizations exploring the history of racism and current inequities in America’s health care system.
The Organ Thieves was favorably reviewed or featured by Scientific American, Good Housekeeping, Smithsonianmagazine.com, The Richmond Free Press, and the Virginian-Pilot, among others. I’ve appeared on numerous critically-acclaimed programs, from Pod Save the People with DeRay McKesson to regional stations on NPR, PBS, CBS and NBC. The book continues to draw attention, such as a 2022 article in Politico.
Plans are underway for a podcast based on the book. Even as The Organ Thieves keeps being discovered by readers, writers, and professors alike, I’m most heartened by the fact that the story of the horrific injustice perpetrated upon Bruce Tucker – with the taking of his heart in 1968 with neither his prior consent nor his family’s – has become part of the national conversation about racial reckoning. Of course there’s more work to be done, so stay tuned!
CHIP JONES - PULITZER-NOMINATED JOURNALIST & AUTHOR
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