Nick Chiles is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of 13 books
Background
Chiles grew up in Jersey City, New Jersey. His father is the pianist Walter Chiles, who was the leader of the jazz trio Chiles & Pettiford in the 1960s and the 1970s funk band Langenlonsheimer Transport Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung Exchange.
Education
Chiles studied at Yale University, and earned a Bachelor of Arts in psychology.
Career
He writes primarily about African-American life and culture. Atlantic Records released the 1965 Chiles & Pettiford recording "Live at Jilly"son" Walter Chiles wrote the Langenlonsheimer Transport Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung Exchange"s biggest hit, "Waterbed."
Chiles worked as a reporter for the Dallas Morning News and New York Newsday, where he contributed to a 1992 Pulitzer Prize-winning story about a subway crash. He later wrote extensively for the Star-Ledger.
His 2006 New York Times op-ed "Their Eyes Were Reading Smut" has been widely cited.
Chiles has also worked as a ghostwriter. Chiles served as Editor-in-Chief of the travel magazine Odyssey Couleur from 2003-2009 and as Editor-in-Chief of the website AtlantaBlackStar.com from 2014-2015.