Edward Humes

Humes was born in Philadelphia and attended Hampshire College.{{Cn|date=May 2024}}

In 1989 he received the Pulitzer Prize for specialized reporting for investigative stories he wrote about the United States military for the Orange County Register.{{cite web| url = http://www.pulitzer.org/winners/edward-humes| title = The Pulitzer Prizes}}

Afterward, he began writing non-fiction books. Humes is the author of 13 nonfiction books, including the bestselling Mississippi Mud; No Matter How Loud I Shout; Baby E.R.; A Man and His Mountain; and Garbology, a popular selection for the First Year Experience program on college campuses.{{Citation needed|date = March 2015|reason = Needs reliable, third-party sources to allow for verification - Not from Humes, publisher or Press Releases - in order to keep this claim in the article.}}

In 2001, Humes spent a year teaching a writing workshop at Whitney High School in Cerritos, California, a middle-class Los Angeles suburb. His observations while at the school led to his narrative non-fiction book School of Dreams, published in 2004.{{Citation needed|date = March 2015|reason = Needs reliable, third-party sources to allow for verification - Not from Humes, publisher or Press Releases - in order to keep this claim in the article.}}

Humes is a contributing writer for Sierra Magazine, California Lawyer and Los Angeles Magazine, among other publications. He is married to journalist and author Donna Wares and lives in Southern California.{{Citation needed|date = March 2015|reason = Needs reliable, third-party sources to allow for verification - Not from Humes, publisher or Press Releases - in order to keep this claim in the article.}}

• {{Cite book| title=Door to Door: The Magnificent, Maddening, Mysterious World of Transportation|author=Humes, Edward|publisher=Harper |isbn=978-0062372079|year=2016|location=New York}}
• {{Cite book| title=A Man and his Mountain: The Everyman who Created Kendall-Jackson and Became America's Greatest Wine Entrepreneur|author=Humes, Edward |publisher=PublicAffairs|isbn=9781610392853|year=2013|location=New York}}
• Garbology: Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash Publisher: Avery (April 19, 2012) {{ISBN|978-1-58333-434-8}} {{cite news| url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702304356604577341771357432332 | work=The Wall Street Journal | first=Marc | last=Levinson | title=At the Top of the Heap | date=April 17, 2012}}
• {{cite book | title = Monkey Girl: Evolution, Education, Religion, and the Battle for America's Soul | publisher = Ecco/HarperCollins | isbn = 978-0-06-088548-9 | author = Humes, Edward | year = 2007 | url = https://archive.org/details/monkeygirlevolut00hume }}
• {{cite book | title = Over Here: How the G.I. Bill Transformed the American Dream | publisher = Harcourt | isbn = 0-15-100710-1 | year = 2006 | author = Humes, Edward | url = https://archive.org/details/overhere00edwa }}
• {{cite book | title = School of Dreams : Making the Grade at a Top American High School | publisher = Harcourt/Harvest Books | isbn = 0-15-603007-1 | year = 2004 | author = Humes, Edward }}
• {{cite book | author = Humes, Edward | title = My California: Journeys by Great Writers | isbn = 1-883318-43-2 | year = 2004 | publisher = Angel City Press | url = https://archive.org/details/mycaliforniajour00ware }} (contributor)
• {{cite book | author = Humes, Edward | title = Baby ER: The Heroic Doctors and Nurses Who Perform Medicine's Tiniest Miracles | publisher = Simon & Schuster | asin = B000A9GLXG | year = 2004}}
• {{cite book | author = Humes, Edward | title = Mean Justice | publisher = Pocket | isbn = 0-671-03427-8 | year = 2003 }}
• {{cite book | author = Humes, Edward | title = No Matter How Loud I Shout: A Year in the Life of Juvenile Court | publisher = Simon & Schuster | isbn = 0-684-81195-2 | year = 1997}}

• "The Forever Witness: How DNA and Genealogy Solved a Cold Case Double Murder", Penguin Putnam Inc, November 29, 2022
• Burned: A Story of Murder and the Crime That Wasn't, Dutton, {{ISBN|9781524742133}}, January 8, 2019
• Mississippi Mud: Southern Justice and the Dixie Mafia, Pocket, {{ISBN|0-671-53505-6}}, December 1, 1995
• Buried Secrets: A True Story of Serial Murder, New Amer Library, {{ISBN|0-451-17164-0}}
• Murderer With a Badge: The Secret Life of a Rogue Cop, E P Dutton, {{ISBN|0-525-93498-7}}, November 1, 1992

• Talk Radio Evolution, The Huffington Post, February 23, 2007.{{cite news| url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/edward-humes/talk-radio-evolution_b_41908.html | work=Huffington Post | title=Talk Radio Evolution | date=February 23, 2007}}

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• [http://www.edwardhumes.com/ Edward Humes' personal web site]
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