News to Me: Adventures of an Accidental Journalist »

Laurie Hertzel grew up in Duluth, Minnesota, and spent nearly twenty years at the Duluth News Tribune as a newsroom clerk, librarian, copy editor, beat reporter, feature writer, news editor, and columnist. Her journalistic work has won numerous national awards, and her short fiction was honored with the Thomas Wolfe Fiction Prize. Currently books editor for the Minneapolis Star Tribune, Hertzel is coauthor of They Took My Father: Finnish Americans in Stalin's Russia, also available from University of Minnesota Press.

The story of a journalist's coming of age in Duluth during the boom days of print.

A Storyteller Is Born 1

Not Making Coffee 9

Eyewitness to Change 25

Murder! 37

On the Night Desk 53

An Accidental Reporter 73

Up the Shore 87

Reporting from Russia 113

Enter Mayme 131

A Month in the South 149

Back to Russia 169

The Long Goodbye 189

Epilogue 201

Acknowledgments 205