Barry Werth

{{Short description|American author and journalist}}

Barry Werth is an American author and journalist. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, GQ, the Smithsonian,{{cite web|url=http://www.simonspeakers.com/BarryWerth|title=Barry Werth|year=2014|publisher=Simon & Schuster|accessdate=2014-01-25|archive-date=2018-01-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180109163230/http://www.simonspeakers.com/BarryWerth|url-status=dead}} and the MIT Technology Review.{{cite web|url=http://cmsw.mit.edu/event/barry-werth-antidote-inside-world-big-pharma/|title=Barry Werth and The Antidote: Reporting from Inside the World of Big Pharma|year=2014|publisher=Massachusetts Institute of Technology|accessdate=2014-01-25}} He has also served as an instructor in journalism at Smith College, Mount Holyoke College, and Boston University.

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.{{cite web |url=http://www.elmhurst.edu/~sage/stonewall.html |title=Stonewall Book Award Winners |last=Page |first=Elaine Fetyko |date=May 5, 2008 |publisher=Elmhurst College Library |accessdate=2014-01-23 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110204170157/http://www.elmhurst.edu/~sage/stonewall.html |archivedate=2011-02-04 }} The book was later adapted into the documentary film The Great Pink Scare,{{cite web|url=https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/greatpinkscare/qa.html|title=Filmmaker Q&A: The Great Pink Scare|last=Yourgrau|first=Tug|year=2014|publisher=Independent Television Services|accessdate=2014-01-23}} and as a 2017 opera by Eric Sawyer and Harley Erdman based on Werth's book.Karen Brown, [http://www.wbur.org/artery/2017/07/10/scandal-opera-smith-college "Opera Revisits 57-Year-Old 'Smut' Scandal At Smith College"], WBUR, July 10, 2017.

His book Damages is commonly used as a case study for teaching medical malpractice in law schools.{{cite web|url=http://scholars.law.unlv.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1223&context=nlj|title=Teaching Real Torts: Using Barry Werth's Damages in the Law School Classroom|last=Baker|first=Tom|year=2002|publisher=Nevada Law Journal|accessdate=2014-01-25}}{{cite web|url=http://scholarship.law.missouri.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1456&context=jdr|title=Damages: Using a Case Study to Teach Law, Lawyering, and Dispute Resolution|last=Daily|first=Melody|year=2004|publisher=Journal of Dispute Resolution|accessdate=2014-01-25}}