Janny Scott
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Janny Scott

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Janny Scott is the author of "The Beneficiary: Fortune, Misfortune, and the Story of My Father" (April 16, 2019) and "A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama's Mother." She was a reporter for The New York Times from 1994 to 2008 and was a member of the Times reporting team that won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting for the series "How Race is Lived in America." She was previously a reporter for the Los Angeles Times and The Record of Bergen County, New Jersey. Her first book, a New York Times bestseller, was the runner up for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography and one of Time magazine's top ten nonfiction books of 2011. Her second book, "The Beneficiary," was chosen by The New York Times as one of its 100 Notable Books of 2019, and by NPR as one of its Favorite Books of 2019. https://jannyscott.com
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    • The Beneficiary

    • Fortune, Misfortune, and the Story of My Father
    • Written by: Janny Scott
    • Narrated by: Janny Scott
    • Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 2019-04-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating

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    • A Singular Woman

    • The Untold Story of Barack Obama's Mother
    • Written by: Janny Scott
    • Narrated by: January LaVoy
    • Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 2011-05-03
    • Language: English
    • 1 out of 5 stars 1 rating

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