Meg Kissinger is an American investigative

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and a visiting professor at Columbia University.

Biography

She is the author of “While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence”, published by Macmillan on Sept. 5, 2023. The book was named as one of the best memoirs of 2023 by Amazon, Audible and Goodreads and was chosen as the editors' choice by the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times. The Atlantic said it was one of six books that can "change the way you think about mental illness." While working at The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, she and Susanne Rust were finalists for the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting for their investigation of

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. Kissinger has also written extensively about the failures of the mental health system. She was born in

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, the fourth oldest in a family of eight children. She attended St. Francis Xavier Grade School and

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. She graduated from

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in 1979.

Awards

* 2013 George Polk Award for Medical Writing * 2012 Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award * 2009

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finalist * 2008

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* 2008 John B. Oakes Award for distinguished environmental reporting * Scripps Howard National Journalism award, 2009 and 2010 * 2009 Grantham award of special merit

Work

''Milwaukee Wisconsin Journal Sentinel''

References

External links

Megkissinger.comA bracing new memoir: CBS Mornings
*, Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism
"Please Explain: BPA"
''WNYC'', February Nieman Storyboard: Meg Kissinger On Writing the Tough Stories *http://www.niemanstoryboard.org/2012/02/08/meg-kissinger-on-writing-the-tough-stories/ {{DEFAULTSORT:Kissinger, Meg American women journalists Living people George Polk Award recipients DePauw University alumni Milwaukee Journal Sentinel people Year of birth missing (living people)