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Ted Genoways
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Ted Genoways

How to pronounce Ted Genoways: JEN-oh-ways

Ted Genoways Biography

Ted Genoways is the winner of the 2018 James Beard Foundation Award for Investigative Journalism. He is the author of five books, including This Blessed Earth, winner of the Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Award, and The Chain: Farm, Factory, and the Fate of Our Food, a finalist for the 2015 James Beard Foundation Award for Writing and Literature. His other honors include a National Press Club Award, an Association of Food Journalists Award, the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism, and fellowships from the NEA and Guggenheim Foundation. He is a contributing editor at Mother Jones, The New Republic, and Pacific Standard. For nine years, he was editor of the Virginia Quarterly Review, during which time the magazine won six National Magazine Awards. He lives outside Lincoln, Nebraska, with the photographer Mary Anne Andrei and their teenage son.

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    If you enjoyed:
    This Blessed Earth

    Try:
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    by Corban Addison

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    Pam Houston is the prize-winning author of Contents May Have Shifted, among other books. Her stories have been selected for volumes of The O. Henry Awards, The Pushcart Prize, Best American Travel Writing, and Best American ... (more)

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    by Pam Houston

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