Background
John M. Barry was born on April 12, 1947, in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. He is the son of Fred A. and Dorothy (Lippman) Barry.
Providence, RI 02912, USA
Barry graduated from Brown University with a bachelor's degree.
Rochester, NY, USA
Barry entered a PhD program at the University of Rochester but withdrew from graduate school in the middle of the semester after he received his Master of Arts degree.
Providence, RI 02912, USA
Barry graduated from Brown University with a bachelor's degree.
Rochester, NY, USA
Barry entered a PhD program at the University of Rochester but withdrew from graduate school in the middle of the semester after he received his Master of Arts degree.
(Profiles the man whose thirty-five-year congressional car...)
Profiles the man whose thirty-five-year congressional career ended ignominiously in the spring of 1989.
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1989
(The chief of surgery at the National Cancer Institute exp...)
The chief of surgery at the National Cancer Institute explains his pioneering achievements using "gene therapy" to cure cancer and shares the moving stories of those undergoing treatment.
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1992
(An American epic of science, politics, race, honor, high ...)
An American epic of science, politics, race, honor, high society, and the Mississippi River, Rising Tide tells the riveting and nearly forgotten story of the greatest natural disaster this country has ever known -- the Mississippi flood of 1927.
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1997
(Barry creates in Power Plays: Politics, Football, and Oth...)
Barry creates in Power Plays: Politics, Football, and Other Blood Sports an engrossing and disturbing primer on American politics, helping readers to understand how might is made, manipulated, and lost.
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2001
(John M. Barry has written a new afterword for this editio...)
John M. Barry has written a new afterword for this edition that brings us up to speed on the terrible threat of the avian flu and suggest ways in which we might head off another flu pandemic.
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2004
(A revelatory look at how Roger Williams shaped the nature...)
A revelatory look at how Roger Williams shaped the nature of religion, political power, and individual rights in America.
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2012
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John M. Barry was born on April 12, 1947, in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. He is the son of Fred A. and Dorothy (Lippman) Barry.
Barry graduated from Brown University with a bachelor's degree, and entered a PhD program at the University of Rochester but withdrew from graduate school in the middle of the semester after he received his Master of Arts degree.
Several years later, Tulane University awarded him an honorary doctorate for his contribution to the recovery of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. Roger Williams University also awarded him an honorary doctorate.
Barry started his career coaching high school and college football, and his first published article appeared in a professional journal for coaches, Scholastic Coach. In the 1970s he began freelancing for magazines and moved to Washington, where he frequently contributed to The Washington Post Sunday Magazine and was Washington editor of the now-defunct Dun's Review and Dun's Business Month.
After releasing his first book, The Ambition and the Power: A true story of Washington, appeared in 1989, Barry became a full-time writer. However, he also holds the position of Distinguished Scholar at Tulane's Bywater Institute and adjunct faculty at the Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. He is also a co-originator of what is now called the Bywater Institute, a Tulane University centre dedicated to comprehensive river research.
John M. Barry is a prize-winning and New York Times best-selling author whose books have won multiple awards. The National Academies of Science named his 2004 book The Great Influenza: The story of the deadliest pandemic in history, a study of the 1918 pandemic, the year’s outstanding book on science or medicine.
His earlier book Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America was named as one of the 50 best books in the preceding 50 years by the New York Public Library in 2005. His books have also been embraced by experts in applicable fields: in 2006 he became the only non-scientist ever to give the National Academies of Sciences annual Abel Wolman Distinguished Lecture, a lecture which honours contributions to water-related science, and he was the only non-scientist on a federal government Infectious Disease Board of Experts.
Barry's latest book is Roger Williams and The Creation of the American Soul: Church, State, and the Birth of Liberty, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and winner of the New England Society Book Award.
Barry's articles have appeared in such scientific journals as Nature and Journal of Infectious Disease as well as in lay publications ranging from Sports Illustrated to Politico, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Fortune, Time, Newsweek, and Esquire.
A frequent guest on every broadcast network in the US, he has appeared on such shows as NBC's Meet the Press, ABC's World News, and NPR's All Things Considered, and on such foreign media as the BBC and Al Jazeera.
(An American epic of science, politics, race, honor, high ...)
1997(Barry creates in Power Plays: Politics, Football, and Oth...)
2001(The chief of surgery at the National Cancer Institute exp...)
1992(A revelatory look at how Roger Williams shaped the nature...)
2012(Profiles the man whose thirty-five-year congressional car...)
1989(John M. Barry has written a new afterword for this editio...)
2004Barry has been equally active in water issues. After Hurricane Katrina, the Louisiana congressional delegation asked him to chair a bipartisan working group on flood protection, and from its founding in 2007 until October 2013 he served on the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority East, overseeing levee districts in metropolitan New Orleans, and on the Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority, which is responsible for the state's hurricane protection. Barry has worked with state, federal, United Nations, and World Health Organization officials on influenza, water-related disasters, and risk communication.
Barry is married to Anne Hudgins Sullivan, with whom he lives in New Orleans. The couple has no children.
