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In Children Under Fire, one of our most gifted storytellers and meticulous reporters probes the unspeakable toll that this nation's unabated gun violence exacts of our most vulnerable: our kids. John Woodrow Cox writes with a searing clarity, laying bare the uniquely American tragedy that has traumatized generations of our children and, by our continued inaction, threatens to traumatize generations more. -- Wesley Lowery, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of They Can't Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore and a New Era in America's Racial Justice Movement

Cox shines a light on America's gun violence crisis through deeply personal and profoundly affecting stories of the children who live with its everlasting repercussions. -- Newsweek A hard-hitting report...Cox makes an impeccable case for how to solve the problem and why it's essential to do so now. -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) Cox adapts his groundbreaking Pulitzer Prize-nominated series in this harrowing and illuminating account. -- BuzzFeed Cox writes with a searing clarity, laying bare the uniquely American tragedy that has traumatized generations of our children and, by our continued inaction, threatens to traumatize generations more. -- Wesley Lowery, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of They Can't Kill Us All

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"John Woodrow Cox is a staff writer at the Washington Post. He previously worked at the Tampa Bay Times and at the Valley News in New Hampshire. He has taught narrative writing at the University of Florida's College of Journalism and Communications, and currently serves on the Department of Journalism's Advisory Council. Cox has won Scripps Howard's Ernie Pyle Award for Human Interest Storytelling, the Dart Award for Excellence in Coverage of Trauma, and Columbia Journalism School's Meyer ""Mike"" Berger Award for human-interest reporting, among other honors. Graham Halstead, an Earphones Award and Audie Award-winning narrator, is a professionally trained actor and voice artist. As an actor, he has worked internationally in Edinburgh and London, as well as at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. His youthful, easy-flowing voice can be heard on television and radio voicing spots for Airborne and Allegra."

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