Michael Capuzzo
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Description
Michael Capuzzo is an American journalist and author best known for his New York Times-bestselling nonfiction books The Murder Room and Close to Shore. Capuzzo was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and raised in the Boston area before he studied journalism at Northwestern University in Illinois. He was a reporter with the Miami Herald before joining the Philadelphia Inquirer, where he received four Pulitzer Prize nominations before becoming a freelance writer. He earned an MFA in creative nonfiction from Goucher College in Maryland in 2011, during which time he completed The Murder Room and was mentored by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Thomas French. Capuzzo is also the author of four books about animals. Source: [Wikipedia](
Books
Close to shore
Details the first documented cases in American history of sharks attacking swimmers, which occured along the Atlantic coast of New Jersey in 1916
Wild things
Our Best Friends
Three children and their pets meet, become friends, and quarrel and laugh and love each other like dear friends do.
The Murder Room
Autobiographical The story of some retired Phila Detectives and Police and a Forensic sculptor. They solve cold cases and at the time of the writing were on the case of the Boy in the Box, which is a still unresolved murder or a still unknown boy found in 1957. This book also tells the story of the Vidocq Society as they are called