迪克·莱尔的青少年小说灵感来源于现实生活中的错误定罪

迪克·莱尔的粉丝们都知道他是一位屡获殊荣的调查记者，他写过澳门威尼斯人注册现实生活中肮脏的犯罪企业、杀人的青少年和犯罪警察的畅销书。

今天出版的莱尔的新书是一个大胆的尝试。 Written for a young adult audience, Trell (Candlewick, 2017) is the fictional story of a 14-year-old who teams up with a newspaper reporter in a quest to free her wrongly imprisoned father.

“I was looking for a way to reach a younger audience,” says 莱尔, a 传媒学院 professor of journalism, who will read from the book tomorrow, September 13, at 布鲁克林Booksmith. “这本小说向读者展示了新闻的力量。”

莱尔说，虽然为青少年写作对他来说是新鲜事物，但写澳门威尼斯人注册社会正义问题的文章却不是。 He may be best known for 《黑色弥撒：怀特·巴尔杰、联邦调查局和魔鬼交易》 (Harper, 2000), cowritten with Gerard O’Neill (COM’70), about their experiences as 波士顿环球报 reporters chronicling Bulger’s double life as a gangster and an FBI informant. The book was made into a 电影 starring Johnny Depp in 2015.

Among 莱尔’s other work are 栅栏：警察掩盖波士顿种族分裂 (Harper, 2009), about the beating of a black plainclothes policeman by white police officers and the ensuing cover-up, and 一场运动的诞生：如何 一个国家的诞生 点燃了争取民权的斗争 (Public Affairs, 2017), the story of an African American newspaper editor in Boston and his battle against the racist depictions in the 电影 一个国家的诞生.

Trell 大量引用了勒尔对肖恩·德拉姆戈尔德（Shawn Drumgold）谋杀罪的报道。德拉姆戈尔德是一名毒贩，因杀害12岁的蒂芙尼·摩尔（Tiffany Moore）而被捕，并被判处终身监禁。20世纪80年代末的一个夏夜，12岁的蒂芙尼·摩尔（Tiffany Moore）坐在一个邮箱上与朋友聊天时被一颗流弹击中。 她的死得到了全国媒体的报道，公众的愤怒给警方施加了逮捕她的压力。