Hank Nuwer

Hank Nuwer is a full-time author with residences in Indiana and Alaska. His 25 books have titles such as Wrongs of Passage, High School Hazing, Broken Pledges: the Deadly Rite of Hazing and The Legend of Jesse Owens. Broken Pledges was adapted for the screen as an NBC-TV movie called Moment of Truth: Broken Pledges, with Linda Gray, Leon Russom and Barry Bonds, a San Francisco Giants baseball player. It was directed by Jorge Monte and filmed in Vancouver, Canada. Nuwer has been interviewed about ways to combat hazing and binge drinking by the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, CNN, NBC Nightly News, Fox on Education, and the ABC Home Show. Trivia: One of his favorite writing assignments was a chance to become a minor league baseball first baseman in spring training for a club managed by baseball legend, Felipe Alou. As an author and social critic, Nuwer's biography is included in such well-known Marquis reference works as Who's Who in the World, Who's Who in America, Who's Who in the South and Southwest, and Who's Who in the Media and Communication. Holder of a bachelor's degree in English education from Buffalo State College (NY), he was named a BSC distinguished alum in 1999 and granted a State University of New York honorary Doctor of Human Letters (with actor Ruben Santiago-Hudson) in 2006 from Buffalo State. His master's degree is in English from New Mexico Highlands University.