After our successful broadcast premiere Monday, March 26, on Rhode Island PBS , The Providence Journal takes COMING HOME, our document...

 Fiction remains my first true writing love, and squeezed between my non-fiction work, I still manage some of it, mostly MEMORY, my nove...

Tonight is the broadcast premiere, followed by a live panel discussion of Coming Home, The Providence Journal's first feature-length do...

Speaking and reading 6:30 p.m. Thursday, March 29, at the Fabre Line Book Club on Providence's historic waterfront -- 200 Allens Ave. Ho...

One of the hundreds of stories The Providence Journal published in the first year after the tragedy alone. This was 11 days out, before the ...

A very nice feature story in The Warwick Beacon on Feb. 8 about the Pell bio and my Warwick Public Library talk last night, which went well...

... for a tour through some places my writing has brought me over the years: toy companies, the halls of Congress, Newport mansions, NASCAR,...

Now listed on IMDB. My third film, now "official."

... for a tour through some places my writing has brought me over the years: toy companies, the halls of Congress, Newport mansions, NASCAR,...

It's official: On Monday, March 26, at 8 p.m., Rhode Island PBS will broadcast The Providence Journal's first feature-length documen...

The Providence Journal this afternoon posted our first original, feature-length documentary: Coming Home, about four veterans of the War o...

The Providence Journal has now created a dedicated page on our website for the eight-part series, with six John Freidah videos, that ran thi...

I will be discussing some of the places my fiction and non-fiction writing has brought me at Spot Underground, the arts and music place in P...

Please join me this Thursday, Nov. 17, at the Redwood Library in Newport for a talk and reading from AN UNCOMMON MAN: The Life & Times...

As part of the VA's Veterans Day ceremonies, Providence Journal colleague John Freidah and I spoke today at the Providence VA Medical Ce...

... The Providence Journal's Publick Occurrences forum Monday, Nov. 7, at Rhode Island College. This is a photo from the event of me wit...

After five months of work, and publication on six Sundays and two Mondays, my Providence Journal series on the veterans of the wars in Iraq ...

With three decades in journalism, I can authoritatively state that public praise from a colleague is rare. And so I was humbled by longtime ...

... with part Six of my exploration of veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan coming this Sunday, Oct. 30. Meanwhile, just posted: Th...

The Ambush: Day Five of my continuing seven-day Providence Journal series on the veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars will run on thi...

Some 200 people came out on a beautiful fall afternoon Oct. 16 for the launch party at Salve Regina University's Pell Center. I signed 1...

As publishers continue deeper into electronic publishing, two of my books have made it not only onto Amazon's Kindle but also now, iTune...

Please join me this Sunday, October 16th, at Salve Regina University's Pell Center for the launch party for my eighth book, AN UNCOMMON...

Photographer John Freidah and I have spent the last several months producing a seven-part Providence Journal series about veterans of the Ir...

David Scharfenberg, editor of The Providence Phoenix, had some very nice things to say in introducing an interview with me about my soon-to...

The hard copy release is still on the horizon, but Amazon has released the Kindle version of the book. You can read it now! Details at the A...

Pre-sale copies of AN UNCOMMON MAN: The Life and Times of Senator Claiborne Pell, my eighth book, seventh non-fiction, arrived at my home a...

More showings, more free DVDs... Join us this weekend at the Jane Pickens in Newport!

I became a friend, and a bit of a biographer, of Bruce Sundlun in his later years, and so I was honored to write his obituary, published in ...

NEWPORT, R.I. –– The Jane Pickens Theater & Event Center on Monday, August 8, will present a special one-year-anniversary showing of the...

...and the Rhode Island Monthly excerpt is set for their popular August issue. This for AN UNCOMMON MAN, which hopedully will prove to be a...

AN UNCOMMON MAN: The Life and Times of Senator Claiborne Pell, is now available on Amazon. This biography, my eighth book, will be in books...

Many writers are of course weighing in on this subject, but I find this essay contributed to CNN to be especially insightful.

In the days leading up to tonight's Rhode Island PBS broadcast premiere of the documentary, we've received lots of continued great c...

Starting Wednesday, April 6, at 8 p.m.

As I comb through Pell's personal scrapbooks and other sources, I am adding new photos to the UNCOMMON MAN web site. I have almost 60 up...

March 22, 2011 For immediate release NEWPORT, R.I. –– The critically acclaimed documentary BEHIND THE HEDGEROW: Eileen Slocum and the Meanin...

I have just reached agreement with Rhode Island Monthly allowing the magazine to run a substantial excerpt of AN UNCOMMON MAN: The Life and...

A few tweaks remain, but the dedicated web site for AN UNCOMMON MAN: The Life and Times of Senator Claiborne Pell, due for publication in O...

A firm date has been set for publication of AN UNCOMMON MAN: October 11, 2011. Fortuitously, the New England Independent Booksellers Associ...

A new title, book launch planning and more at The Pell biography blog.

I have reached agreement with the prestigious University Press of New England to publish my biography of the late Senator Claiborne Pell, w...

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My father, a good and gentle man, died eight years ago today. I still miss him. This is the eulogy I delivered at his funeral. God speed, D...

... this is the blog where I will periodically check in, though not too frequently. Franzen is right when he disconnects from the Internet w...

After a successful August premiere and month-long run at the Pickens, filmmakers David Bettencourt and G. Wayne Miller returned to the editi...

After successful showings at the 2010 Rhode Island International Film Festival, in August, and just this month at the inaugural FLICKERS No...

Having completed a successful month-long run at Newport’s Jane Pickens Theater, the critically acclaimed BEHIND THE HEDGEROW: Eileen Slocum ...

The August 14 Newport premiere turned out to be a success beyond what we had hoped. Nearly 400 people filled Salve Regina University's B...