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Hear the story of notorious newspaper man Charles E.  Chapin from his biographer James McGrath Morris. An icon from the era of Yellow Journalism, Chapin’s rise from reporter to editor and his fall from power is a story torn from the pages of tabloid newspapers. Morris’s book, The Rose Man of Sing Sing, chronicles Chapin’s remarkable life. Learn what sent him to prison and how he came to be known as The Rose Man of Sing Sing.

James McGrath Morris is an award-winning and New York Times best-selling author. He recently released his long-awaited biography, Tony Hillerman, A Life. His other books include The Ambulance Drivers: Hemingway, Dos Pasos, and a Friendship Made and Lost in War, and Pulitzer: A Life in Politics, Print and Power.