Jed Horne is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who was for many years city editor of The Times-Picayune, the New Orleans daily newspaper.
He has been interviewed by numerous radio and television personalities, including Terry Gross, Amy Goodman, Charlie Rose, and Tavis Smiley.
With initial funding from George Soros, he helped founders Ariella Cohen and Karen Gadbois launch The Lens,[2] an investigative website focused on New Orleans governance.
The son of a school administrator and the great-nephew of Nobel laureate Dickinson Richards (medicine, 1956), Horne was born in Greenfield, Massachusetts in 1948.
"Desire Street" was nominated for the 2006 Edgar for best non-fiction crime book of the year and was runner-up for the American Bar Association's Silver Gavel Award.