Nick Chiles

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Nick Chiles
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Born (1965-08-07) August 7, 1965 (age 56)
Manhattan, New York City, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
Alma materYale University (BA)
OccupationJournalist and author
Known forAuthor of 15 books, three of which were NY Times bestsellers, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
Spouse(s)
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(divorced)​

Sadiqa Chiles
RelativesAngelou Ezeilo (sister)
Websitewww.nickchiles.com

Nick Chiles (born August 7, 1965) is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of 19 books.[1] He writes primarily about African-American life and culture.[2]

Early life[]

Chiles grew up in Jersey City, New Jersey. His father is the pianist Walter Chiles, who was the leader of the jazz trio Chiles & Pettiford in the 1960s and of the funk band LTG Exchange in the 1970s.[3] Atlantic Records released the 1965 Chiles & Pettiford recording Live at Jilly's.[4] Walter Chiles wrote most of the LTG Exchange's songs, including their biggest hit, "Waterbed".[5]

Chiles attended in Jersey City and received a B.A. in psychology from Yale University.[6]

Career[]

Chiles worked as a reporter for The Dallas Morning News and New York Newsday, where he contributed to a 1992 Pulitzer Prize-winning story about a subway crash.[7] He later worked as an education reporter for the Star-Ledger.[8] Chiles has also worked as a ghostwriter.[9]

Chiles has worked as a literary agent with the Manhattan-based agency Aevitas Creative Management. He was a recipient of the Spencer Education Journalism Fellowship at Columbia University. Chiles was a member of the board overseeing the Atlanta Neighborhood Charter Schools; he is now a member of the board of the Spencer Education Journalism Fellowship. He is on the advisory board of the Hechinger Report, an independent newsroom covering inequity and innovation in education. He has served as a professor at Columbia Journalism School and at Princeton University as a recipient of the Ferris Fellowship. Chiles currently is an Industry Fellow and professor of journalism at the University of Georgia Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication. He is also a communications consultant for the William Julius Wilson Institute at the Harlem Children's Zone.

Books[]

Chiles has written or co-written 19 books, three of which were New York Times bestsellers: The Blueprint: A Plan for Living Above Life’s Storms (2010, co-authored with Kirk Franklin),[10] The Rejected Stone: Al Sharpton and the Path to American Leadership (2013, written with Rev. Al Sharpton),[11] and Every Little Step: My Story,[12] (2016, written with Bobby Brown.)

Chiles and former NBA player Etan Thomas wrote Fatherhood: Rising to the Ultimate Challenge (2012).[13] Chiles and then-Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick collaborated on the 2012 book, Faith in the Dream. His book Justice While Black,[14] written with attorney Robbin Shipp, was a finalist for a 2014 NAACP Image Award.[15] He co-wrote the 2019 book Engage Connect Protect: Empowering Diverse Youth as Environmental Leaders [16] with Angelou Ezeilo (née Chiles), his younger sister.

Chiles and his then wife, American author Denene Millner,[17] co-wrote the bestselling three book non-fiction relationship series, What Brothers Think, What Sistahs Know, published by HarperCollins.[18][19][20] Their novel Love Don’t Live Here Anymore, published by Dutton, appeared on two bestseller lists, Essence and Blackboard. They also co-wrote the novels In Love And War and A Love Story.[21]

A short story by Chiles was included in the Ballantine anthology, Brotherman: The Odyssey of Black Men in America, which won a 1996 American Book Award. Chiles and Jeff Jones also co-wrote a young adult novel called The Adventures of De-Ante Johnson: The Obsidian Knight.

Chiles lives in Decatur, Georgia, with his wife Sadiqa Chiles.

References[]

  1. ^ "Contributing writer Nick Chiles". hechingerreport.com. Retrieved 2015-10-26.
  2. ^ "How-to book helps Black families survive dangers of criminal justice system". MSR Online | December 19, 2014
  3. ^ https://www.allmusic.com/artist/ltg-exchange-mn0000776832
  4. ^ http://www.jazzdisco.org/atlantic-records/discography-1965/
  5. ^ https://www.allmusic.com/album/the-very-best-of-ltg-exchange-waterbed-mw0000597755
  6. ^ "Weddings: Denene Millner and Nicholas Chiles". NYTimes.com. 1997-08-24. Retrieved 2015-10-26.
  7. ^ "Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novelist Jennifer Egan Coming to Campus". fandm.edu. 2014-10-10. Retrieved 2015-10-26.
  8. ^ "Editor & Publisher - CLASS PROJECT FOR 'STAR-LEDGER'". editorandpublisher.com. Archived from the original on 2015-03-28.
  9. ^ "Deval Patrick, stumping for Obama in Charlotte, will also be auditioning for higher office". Boston.com.
  10. ^ "Nonfiction Book Review: The Blueprint: A Plan for Living Above Life's Storms by Kirk Franklin". PublishersWeekly.com.
  11. ^ "Book Review—The Rejected Stone—Al Sharpton and the Path to American Leadership by Al Sharpton with Nick Chiles". tnj.com.
  12. ^ https://www.nytimes.com/books/best-sellers/2016/07/03/hardcover-nonfiction/?_r=0
  13. ^ Michael Lindgren (27 July 2012). ""Fatherhood: Rising to the Ultimate Challenge" by Etan Thomas with Nick Chiles". Washington Post.
  14. ^ https://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-thompson/wrestling-with-justice-wh_b_6413202.html
  15. ^ https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/moviesnow/la-et-mn-naacp-image-awards-2014-full-list-of-nominees-20141209-story.html
  16. ^ Ezeilo, Angelou; Chiles, Nick (12 November 2019). Engage, Connect, Protect: Empowering Diverse Youth as Environmental Leaders. ISBN 978-0865719187.
  17. ^ "Weddings Denene Millner and Nicholas Chiles". New York Times, Published: August 24, 1997
  18. ^ Johnson Publishing Company (20 November 2000). "Jet". Jet : 2004. Johnson Publishing Company: 12–. ISSN 0021-5996.
  19. ^ The Crisis Publishing Company, Inc. (2008). "The Crisis". Crisis (1910). The Crisis Publishing Company, Inc.: 21–. ISSN 0011-1422.
  20. ^ Chiles, Nick. "Bio". Nick Chiles. Retrieved 2020-12-16.
  21. ^ "A LOVE STORY ". Publisher Weekly

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