Mitchell Zuckoff

Zuckoff received a bachelor's degree from the University of Rhode Island and a master's degree from the University of Missouri. He was a Batten Fellow at the Darden School of Business Administration at the University of Virginia.

Zuckoff was a special projects reporter and a member of the Globe Spotlight Team at the Boston Globe newspaper.{{cite web |title=Mitchell Zuckoff |url=https://www.bu.edu/com/profile/mitchell-zuckoff/ |website=www.bu.edu |publisher=Boston University |access-date=2 October 2024 |language=en}} He was appointed as a professor in Boston University’s College of Communication, and in 2014, was named the first Sumner N Redstone Professor of Narrative Studies at Boston University.{{cite web |last1=Corpuz |first1=Mina |title=COM professor named first Sumner N. Professor of Narrative Studies |url=https://dailyfreepress.com/2015/03/09/com-professor-named-first-sumner-n-professor-of-narrative-studies/ |website=dailyfreepress.com |publisher=Boston University |access-date=2 October 2024 |date=9 March 2015}} He is the author of eight non-fiction books.

13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened In Benghazi (2014) was co-written with the surviving members of the security team involved in the 2012 Benghazi attack on the U.S. consulate.{{Cite web |date=2014-09-09 |title=Zuckoff Chronicles Benghazi Attack in 13 Hours {{!}} BU Today |url=https://www.bu.edu/articles/2014/zuckoff-chronicles-benghazi-attack-in-13-hours/ |access-date=2024-12-03 |website=Boston University |language=en}} It tells the story of the terrorist attack from the perspective of the security team, without discussing later political controversies.

Frozen in Time: An Epic Story of Survival and a Modern Quest for Lost Heroes of World War II (2013) is about a U.S. military airplane that crashed on the Greenland glacier during World War II, the subsequent hunt for the plane, and Zuckoff's role in helping to find the plane buried in the ice decades later.

Lost in Shangri-La: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II (2011) is about a US military airplane called "The Gremlin Special", which crashed on May 13, 1945, in New Guinea, and the subsequent rescue of the survivors.{{Cite web |title=A WWII Survival Epic Unfolds Deep In 'Shangri-La' |url=https://www.npr.org/2011/04/26/135710893/a-wwii-survival-epic-unfolds-deep-in-shangri-la |website=npr.org}} Lost in Shangri-La won the Laurence L. & Thomas Winship/PEN New England Award and spent several months on The New York Times Best Seller list.{{Cite web |last=Fleming |first=Mike Jr. |date=2019-12-02 |title=Elizabeth Gabler's 3000 Film Label Gets 'Lost In Shangri-La' |url=https://deadline.com/2019/12/lost-in-shangri-la-movie-elizabeth-gabler-3000-mitch-zuckoff-1202795428/ |access-date=2024-12-03 |website=Deadline |language=en-US}}

His earlier books include Robert Altman: The Oral Biography, Ponzi’s Scheme: The True Story of a Financial Legend, and Choosing Naia: A Family's Journey. He is co-author with Dick Lehr of Judgment Ridge: The True Story Behind the Dartmouth Murders.

Zuckoff's magazine work has appeared in The New Yorker, Fortune, and elsewhere.

As of 2019, ABC was developing a documentary adaptation of his novel Fall and Rise: The Story of 9/11 to commemorate the anniversary.{{Cite web|last=Harris|first=Hunter|date=2019-08-05|title=ABC to Mark 20th Anniversary of 9/11 With Limited Series |url=https://www.vulture.com/2019/08/9-11-limited-series-tv-adaptation-abc.html|access-date=2021-04-23|website=Vulture|language=en-us}}

As a reporter at The Boston Globe, Zuckoff received the Distinguished Writing Award from the American Society of Newspaper Editors,{{Cite web |title=ASNE Awards 2000 |url=https://members.newsleaders.org/awards-2000 |access-date=2024-11-30 |website=members.newsleaders.org}} the Livingston Award for International Reporting (1995),{{Cite web |title=Past Winners |url=https://wallacehouse.umich.edu/livingston-awards/past-winners/ |access-date=2024-11-30 |website=Wallace House Center for Journalists |language=en-US}} the Heywood Broun Award, and the Associated Press Managing Editors' Public Service Award.{{citation needed|date=September 2014}}

• 2019 Fall and Rise: The Story of 9/11{{cite web |last1=Slane |first1=Kevin |title=Former Globe reporter's new book is a 'comprehensive' story of 9/11 |url=https://www.boston.com/culture/books/2019/01/17/former-globe-reporters-new-book-is-a-comprehensive-story-of-9-11/ |website=www.boston.com |access-date=2 October 2024 |date=17 January 2017}}
• 2014 13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened In Benghazi, {{ISBN|1455582271}}
• 2013 Frozen in Time: An Epic Story of Survival and a Modern Quest for Lost Heroes of World War II, {{ISBN|0062133438}}
• 2011 Lost in Shangri-La: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II, {{ISBN|0061988340}}
• 2009 Robert Altman: The Oral Biography, {{ISBN|0307267687}}{{cite book|title=WorldCat listing for book |publisher=Worldcat.org |oclc = 299707529}}Review, by David Thomson in The New Republic (October 21, 2009): 53–55; Review, by Nathaniel Rich, The New York Review of Books. 57, no. 4, (2010): 29; Review, by Mark Harris The New York Times book review. (November 8, 2009): 29
• 2005 Ponzi's Scheme: The True Story of a Financial Legend, {{ISBN|1400060397}}Discussed on video,: C-SPAN Archives, 2005.; Review, by D Margolick The New York Times Book Review. 110, no. 15, (April 10, 2005): 19–24.
• 2003 with Dick Lehr: Judgment Ridge: The True Story Behind the Dartmouth Murders, {{ISBN|0060008458}}{{cite book|title=Judgment Ridge : the true story behind the Dartmouth murders (Book, 2003) |publisher=WorldCat.org |date=December 6, 2007 |oclc = 51755841}}
• 2002 Choosing Naia: A Family's Journey, {{ISBN|0807028169}}{{cite book|title=Choosing Naia : a family's journey (Book, 2002) |publisher=[WorldCat.org] |date=January 17, 2011 |oclc = 49750319}}Review, by M. Jones The New York Times Book Review, 107, Part 50 (2002): 26

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| quote = The burial of the aircraft under seventy years of snowfall and the movement of the ice in which it is embedded have hampered these search efforts. The story of Pritchard and Bottoms and the attempts to find them served as the focus of the 2013 bestseller book “Frozen in Time” by Mitchell Zuckoff. In 2014, the Coast Guard Academy inducted Pritchard into its Hall of Heroes while Bottoms has been honored as the namesake for a new Fast Response Cutter.

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