Barry Werth is an American author and journalist.
His work has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, GQ, the Smithsonian,[1] and the MIT Technology Review.
[1] Werth received a Stonewall Book Award in 2002 for The Scarlet Professor, his biography of Newton Arvin, a literary critic who was publicly forced into retirement in 1960 during an anti-pornography drive by the US Post Office.
[3] The book was later adapted into the documentary film The Great Pink Scare,[4] and as a 2017 opera by Eric Sawyer and Harley Erdman based on Werth's book.
[5] His book Damages is commonly used as a case study for teaching medical malpractice in law schools.