Barry Werth

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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]

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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] and as a 2017 opera by Eric Sawyer and Harley Erdman based on Werth's book. [5]

His book Damages is commonly used as a case study for teaching medical malpractice in law schools. [6] [7]

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  1. 1 2 "Barry Werth". Simon & Schuster. 2014. Archived from the original on 2018-01-09. 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. Archived from the original on 2011-02-04. Retrieved 2014-01-23.
  4. Yourgrau, Tug (2014). "Filmmaker Q&A: The Great Pink Scare". Independent Television Services. Archived from the original on March 7, 2007. Retrieved 2014-01-23.
  5. Karen Brown, "Opera Revisits 57-Year-Old 'Smut' Scandal At Smith College", WBUR, July 10, 2017.
  6. Baker, Tom (2002). "Teaching Real Torts: Using Barry Werth's Damages in the Law School Classroom". Nevada Law Journal. Retrieved 2014-01-25.
  7. Daily, Melody (2004). "Damages: Using a Case Study to Teach Law, Lawyering, and Dispute Resolution". Journal of Dispute Resolution. Retrieved 2014-01-25.