Michael Capuzzo

1 May 1957

Michael Capuzzo is an American journalist and author best known for his New York Times-bestselling nonfiction books *The Murder Room* and *Close to Shore*. Capuzzo was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and raised in the Boston area before he studied journalism at Northwestern University in Illinois. He was a reporter with the *Miami Herald* before joining the *Philadelphia Inquirer*, where he received four Pulitzer Prize nominations before becoming a freelance writer. He earned an MFA in creative nonfiction from Goucher College in Maryland in 2011, during which time he completed *The Murder Room* and was mentored by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Thomas French. Capuzzo is also the author of four books about animals. Source: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Capuzzo)