Chris Sweeney

About The Author

Chris Sweeney is an award-winning journalist whose reporting has appeared in Audubon, The Guardian, Popular Science, Men’s Journal, and WIRED, among many others. He has worked as a senior editor at Boston Magazine and a staff writer at Village Voice Media’s New Times in South Florida. Sweeney was a United Nations Foundation Global Issues Press Fellow, and he has taught at Tufts University, Regis College, and Western Connecticut State University. A graduate of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and Northwestern University’s Medill School, he now lives in Somerville, Massachusetts, with his wife and two young daughters.

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Books by Chris Sweeney

The Feather Detective

Mystery, Mayhem, and the Magnificent Life of Roxie Laybourne

By Chris Sweeney

“A biography that reads like a novel.” —The Wall Street Journal • “Laybourne was a badass.” —Los Angeles Times • “Sweeney’s biography must be read to be believed.” —The Millions • “Engrossing...Riveting...This entrances.” —Publishers Weekly • NPR Books...

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