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National Book Foundation > Author > Jim Dwyer
Jim Dwyer, native New Yorker, veteran newspaper reporter, and the recipient of many awards, now works at The New York Times. Dwyer is the coauthor of Two Seconds Under the World, an account of the 1993 effort to destroy the World Trade Center, and of Actual Innocence: Five Days to Execution and Other Dispatches from the Wrongly Convicted. He is also the author of Subway Lives: 24 Hours in the Life of the New York City Subway. More about this author >
The dramatic and moving account of the struggle for life inside the World Trade Center on the morning of September 11, when every minute counted, from the perspective of those who survived. More about this book >
Jim Dwyer, native New Yorker, veteran newspaper reporter, and the recipient of many awards, now works at The New York Times. Dwyer is the coauthor of Two Seconds Under the World, an account of the 1993 effort to destroy the World Trade Center, and of Actual Innocence: Five Days to Execution and Other Dispatches from the Wrongly Convicted. He is also the author of Subway Lives: 24 Hours in the Life of the New York City Subway.