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American historian
Jason Berry
Born 1949 Nationality American Education Jesuit High School Alma mater Georgetown University Genre Writer, journalist, film director
Jason Berry (born 1949)
[1] is an American investigative reporter, author and film director based in
New Orleans , Louisiana. He is known for pioneering investigative reporting on
sexual abuse in the priesthood of the Catholic Church .
[2]
[3]
Life
He attended
Jesuit High School in New Orleans, graduating in 1966.
Berry is a graduate of
Georgetown University .
[4]
His book
Lead Us Not into Temptation: Catholic Priests and the Sexual Abuse of Children (1992) was the first major book on this issue. His 2004 book
Vows of Silence deals with the sexual abuse of
Marcial Maciel , the founder of the
Legion of Christ , and the cover-up of that abuse. The author also adapted Vows of Silence into a film.
[5] Berry has been frequently interviewed in national media in the United States, has worked as a consultant for
ABC News , and contributed to the
National Public Radio and is a speaker on sexual abuse issues and popular culture.
[6]
Berry has also written books and news articles on music, particularly
jazz , and co-wrote
Up from the Cradle of Jazz: New Orleans Music Since World War II with Jonathan Foose and
Tad Jones .
[3]
[7]
Awards
Berry won his first
Catholic Press Association Award in 1986 for his original coverage in the
National Catholic Reporter of the
clergy sexual-abuse scandals in Louisiana, notably including the priest
Gilbert Gauthe . He was awarded his second in 1993 for the publication of Lead Us Not into Temptation: Catholic Priests and the Sexual Abuse of Children . He was a recipient of the
Alicia Patterson Journalism Fellowship for his reportage of
David Duke . He and his wife live in New Orleans.
[8]
Berry won an Alicia Patterson Journalism Fellowship in 1992, covering Louisiana's political demagogues.[
citation needed ]
Books
Up from the Cradle of Jazz: New Orleans Music Since World War II Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 1986.
ISBN
9780820308548 ,
OCLC
906469394
Lead Us Not Into Temptation: Catholic Priests and the Sexual Abuse of Children (1992) Re-issued, March 27, 2000 by University of Illinois Press.
ISBN
978-0-252-06812-6
The Spirit of Black Hawk: A Mystery of Africans and Indians (1995)
Vows of Silence New York ; London: Free Press, 2004.
ISBN
9780743244411 ,
OCLC
53462027
Last of the Red Hot Poppas Seattle: Chin Music Press, 2006.
ISBN
9780974199528 ,
OCLC
71836647
City of a Million Dreams : A History of New Orleans at Year 300 , Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2018.
ISBN
9781469647142 ,
OCLC
1029441309
Filmography
Vows of Silence , director
Up from the Cradle of Jazz, director
References
^ Hunter, Beryl; Thomson, Laura.
"Berry, Jason (1949-)" .
Amistad Research Center . Retrieved September 12, 2021 .
^ Roig-Franzia o, Manuel (September 20, 2011).
"Despite investigating Catholic scandals, author Jason Berry keeps the faith" . The Washington Post . Retrieved January 10, 2019 .
^
a
b Roberts, Tom (November 20, 2019).
"The jazz writer: Jason Berry's quest to understand the place where he's from" . National Catholic Reporter . Retrieved September 10, 2021 .
^
"Jason Berry" . Pulitzer Center . Retrieved January 6, 2019 .
^
Vowsofsilencefilm.com
^
Jasonberryauthor.com
^ Maria C. Montoya (September 2, 2009).
"Jason Berry expands on New Orleans music history primer in a reissue of Up from the Cradle of Jazz" . The Times-Picayune . Archived from
the original on April 29, 2017. Retrieved November 12, 2017 .
^ Biographical information appears on book jacket of Lead Us Not into Temptation: Catholic Priests and the Sexual Abuse of Children first published by Doubleday in 1992,
ISBN
978-0-385-42436-3
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