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About the Author
Photograph Used With Permission From the Ohioana Library Dayton native Ann Hagedorn is an award-winning author and journalist, and has been a staff writer for The Wall Street Journal. She has taught writing at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. Hagedorn Lives in Ripley. In 1991, Hagedorn focused her knowledge of fraud and bankruptcy on probing the collapse of America's premier horseracing dynasty, Calumet Farm. The result was the highly acclaimed book Wild Ride: The Rise and Tragic Fall of Calumet Farm, Inc., a story of greed and intrigue in the 1980s that is now under option with Paramount Pictures. The author left the WSJ in late 1993 to join the New York Daily News as Special Projects Editor. There, in addition to overseeing projects, she wrote multi-part series on geriatric inmates in New York prisons, New York lawyers who were laundering money for Colombian drug cartels, capital punishment, and a four-part series on George Steinbrenner and the bankruptcy of his shipbuilding empire ( which won an Associated Press award.) Next, she wrote a mini-sequel for the Wild Ride paperback edition and began researching and writing Ransom. After the release of Ransom, Hagedorn wrote a piece for The Washington Post and taught a narrative non-fiction writing course at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, where she had been giving lectures in various classes for several years. During that time, she discovered a stunning story in the Ohio River Valley that resulted in her third book Beyond the River, now under option with Clear Pictures Inc. After writing Beyond the River, she taught a writing course at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism in Evanston, Illinois and while in Chicago she began the research for Savage Peace. She has given lectures on writing at Vassar College, Berea College, Denison University, Wilmington College, Ohio State University, at the Antioch Writer's Workshop, at the Mercantile Library in Cincinnati, among other venues. Other Resources: Library Thing Profile of Ms. Hagedorn Ms. Hagedorn's personal website Ohioana Author Profile Simon & Schuster Author Profile
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