Edward Humes

Edward Humes is an American journalist and non-fiction writer.

Biography Humes was born in Philadelphia and attended Hampshire College.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Books Non-fiction

Garbology: Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash Publisher: Avery (April 19, 2012)

(contributor)

True crime "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, , January 8, 2019 Mississippi Mud: Southern Justice and the Dixie Mafia, Pocket, , December 1, 1995 Buried Secrets: A True Story of Serial Murder, New Amer Library, Murderer With a Badge: The Secret Life of a Rogue Cop, E P Dutton, , November 1, 1992

Article Talk Radio Evolution, The Huffington Post, February 23, 2007.