Lutheran University’s MFA program.
BOB MINZESHEIMER Since 1997, Bob Minzesheimer has been USA Today’s New York-based book reviewer and reporter. Before he wrote about books, he covered politics in Washington, D.C., and education in Rochester, N.Y. He’s a native of Brooklyn and a graduate of Colgate University and Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism, and was a Knight fellow at Stanford University. He’s a former president of the board of trustees of the Ossining (N.Y.) Public Library and a former executive board member of the National Book Critics Circle. He lives in Scarborough, N.Y., with his wife, Mary Murphy, a filmmaker and author, and their two children.
MARCIA MITCHELL
Marcia Mitchell is a former associate director of the American Film Institute
and former senior executive of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. She is a prize-winning journalist and author of five non-fiction books. Recently, her writing has focused on espionage and intelligence. Her book, The Spy Who Tried to Stop a War: Katharine Gun and the Secret Plot to Sanction the Iraq Invasion, was named a UK best book of the year in 2008. The subject matter, a secret service officer who leaked an international spy operation that outraged much of the world, has again embroiled her in controversy about the difference between heroic and traitorous deeds.
STEVEN T. MITCHELL Steven T. Mitchell is a native of Lead and a life-long resident of the Black Hills. He earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in mining engineering from the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. He spent much of his career with the Homestake Mining Company as a mine planning engineer, mine superintendent and Open Cut superintendent. After the mine closed in 2001, he
assisted in transferring much of the property to the state of South Dakota for conversion to a science laboratory, and helped develop a decommissioning, closure and reclamation plan. He also consults for the South Dakota Science and Technology Authority. He and his wife, Cindy, live near Sturgis.
MARY MCDONAGH MURPHY Mary McDonagh Murphy is a director, writer, author and television producer. Her most recent documentary is Hey, Boo: Harper Lee and To Kill a Mockingbird, released theatrically and broadcast nationally on PBS’s American Masters. The companion book is Scout, Atticus and Boo. Murphy has also produced stories for CBS News and NBC News, and has written for Newsweek, Chicago Tribune, New York Post and Publishers Weekly. A Rhode Island native, she is a graduate of Wesleyan University and was a John S. Knight fellow at Stanford
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