Mitchell Zuckoff

Mitchell S. Zuckoff is an American professor of communications at Boston University. His books include Lost in Shangri-La and 13 Hours.

Education 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. 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. He is the author of eight non-fiction books. It tells the story of the terrorist attack from the perspective of the security team, without discussing later political controversies. 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.

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.

Awards and honors As a reporter at The Boston Globe, Zuckoff received the Distinguished Writing Award from the American Society of Newspaper Editors, the Livingston Award for International Reporting (1995), the Heywood Broun Award, and the Associated Press Managing Editors' Public Service Award.

Publications 2019 Fall and Rise: The Story of 9/11 2014 13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened In Benghazi, 2013 Frozen in Time: An Epic Story of Survival and a Modern Quest for Lost Heroes of World War II, 2011 Lost in Shangri-La: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II, 2009 Robert Altman: The Oral Biography, 2005 Ponzi's Scheme: The True Story of a Financial Legend, 2003 with Dick Lehr: Judgment Ridge: The True Story Behind the Dartmouth Murders, 2002 Choosing Naia: A Family's Journey,