tracythompson

Tracy Thompson is a Washington, DC-based journalist and editor. She spent most of her newspaper career at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and, later, at the Washington Post. In 1988 she was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in investigative reporting. She is the author of three books: The Beast: A Reckoning with Depression; The Ghost in the House; and The New Mind of the South. Her essays have appeared in Salvation South, The American Scholar, The Sewanee Review, and in various anthologies.