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    Ted Conover, author portrait
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    Ted Conover

    Ted Conover is the author most recently of Cheap Land Colorado: Off-Gridders at America’s Edge, named one of The New Yorker’s best books of 2022. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing, an account of his ten months spent working as a corrections officer at New York’s Sing Sing prison, won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Conover’s other books include Rolling Nowhere: Riding the Rails with America’s Hoboes, Coyotes: A Journey Across Borders with America’s Mexican Migrants, Whiteout: Lost in Aspen, The Routes of Man, and Immersion: A Writer’s Guide to Going Deep. He has written for publications including The New York Times Magazine, Outside, and Harper’s. Twice his work has been an answer on “Jeopardy!” He is now professor at NYU’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute.
    Rolling Nowhere
    Rolling Nowhere
    Riding the Rails with America's Hoboes
    Ted Conover
    9780375727863
    $18.00 US
    Paperback
    Sep 11, 2001
    Vintage
    Grades 9-12 + AP/IB
    Coyotes
    Coyotes
    A Journey Across Borders With America's Mexican Migrants
    Ted Conover
    9780394755182
    $19.00 US
    Paperback
    Aug 12, 1987
    Vintage
    Grades 9-12 + AP/IB

    Books

    Rolling Nowhere
    Rolling Nowhere
    Riding the Rails with America's Hoboes
    Ted Conover
    9780375727863
    $18.00 US
    Paperback
    Sep 11, 2001
    Vintage
    Grades 9-12 + AP/IB
    Coyotes
    Coyotes
    A Journey Across Borders With America's Mexican Migrants
    Ted Conover
    9780394755182
    $19.00 US
    Paperback
    Aug 12, 1987
    Vintage
    Grades 9-12 + AP/IB

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