Nick Chiles

Nick Chiles (born August 7, 1965) is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of 15 books.[1] He writes primarily about African-American life and culture.[2]

Nick Chiles
Born (1965-08-07) August 7, 1965
Manhattan, NY
NationalityAmerican
Alma materYale University
OccupationPulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author
Known forAuthor of 15 books, three of which were NY Times bestsellers, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
Websitewww.nickchiles.com

Early life

Chiles grew up in Jersey City, New Jersey. His father is the pianist Walter Chiles, who was the leader of the jazz trio Chiles & Pettiford in the 1960s and of the funk band LTG Exchange in the 1970s.[3] Atlantic Records released the 1965 Chiles & Pettiford recording "Live at Jilly's."[4] Walter Chiles wrote most of the LTG Exchange's songs, including their biggest hit, "Waterbed."[5]

Chiles attended St. Peter's Prep in Jersey City and earned a B.A. in psychology at Yale University.[6]

Career

Chiles worked as a reporter for the Dallas Morning News and New York Newsday, where he contributed to a 1992 Pulitzer Prize-winning story about a subway crash.[7] He later wrote extensively for the Star-Ledger.[8] His 2006 New York Times op-ed "Their Eyes Were Reading Smut" on the proliferation of street fiction has been widely cited.[9][10][11] Chiles has also worked as a ghostwriter.[12] Chiles served as Editor-in-Chief of the travel magazine Odyssey Couleur from 2003-2009 and as Editor-in-Chief of the website AtlantaBlackStar.com from 2014-2015. He worked as a literary agent with Aevitas Creative Management in New York City from 2017-2019.

Chiles was the recipient of the prestigious Spencer Fellowship at Columbia University in 2017-2018. He has also been a professor at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. In 2019 he taught at Princeton University as the recipient of the Ferris Fellowship. In 2020, Chiles was selected to serve as the Industry Fellow at the Cox Institute, a part of the University of Georgia's Grady College of Journalism and Communications — where he also runs the journalism school's Writing Lab.

Books

Chiles has written or co-written 15 books, three of which were New York Times bestsellers. The latest bestseller was Every Little Step: My Story,[13] which he wrote with entertainer Bobby Brown and which was published in June 2016. The book debuted at #9 on the New York Times Nonfiction Bestsellers List and stayed on the Celebrity Bestsellers List for several months. His other two New York Times bestsellers were the 2013 The Rejected Stone: Al Sharpton and the Path to American Leadership, which he wrote with Rev. Al Sharpton,[14] and The Blueprint: A Plan for Living Above Life’s Storms, co-authored with Kirk Franklin.[15] Chiles and former NBA player Etan Thomas wrote Fatherhood: Rising to the Ultimate Challenge (2012).[16] Chiles and then-Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick collaborated on the 2012 book, Faith in the Dream. His book Justice While Black,[17] written with attorney Robbin Shipp, was a finalist for a 2014 NAACP Image Award.[18] He co-wrote the 2019 book Engage Connect Protect: Empowering Diverse Youth as Environmental Leaders [19] with Angelou Ezeilo (née Chiles), his younger sister.

Chiles and his former wife, American author Denene Millner,[20] co-wrote the bestselling three book non-fiction relationship series, What Brothers Think, What Sistahs Know, published by HarperCollins.[21][22] Their novel Love Don’t Live Here Anymore, published by Dutton, appeared on two bestseller lists, Essence and Blackboard. They also co-wrote the novels In Love And War and A Love Story.[23]

A short story by Chiles was included in the Ballantine anthology, Brotherman: The Odyssey of Black Men in America, which won a 1996 American Book Award. Chiles and Jeff Jones also co-wrote a young adult novel called The Adventures of De-Ante Johnson: The Obsidian Knight.

References
  1. "Contributing writer Nick Chiles". hechingerreport.com. Retrieved 2015-10-26.
  2. "How-to book helps Black families survive dangers of criminal justice system". MSR Online | December 19, 2014
  3. https://www.allmusic.com/artist/ltg-exchange-mn0000776832
  4. http://www.jazzdisco.org/atlantic-records/discography-1965/
  5. https://www.allmusic.com/album/the-very-best-of-ltg-exchange-waterbed-mw0000597755
  6. "Weddings: Denene Millner and Nicholas Chiles". NYTimes.com. 1997-08-24. Retrieved 2015-10-26.
  7. "Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novelist Jennifer Egan Coming to Campus". fandm.edu. 2014-10-10. Retrieved 2015-10-26.
  8. "Editor & Publisher - CLASS PROJECT FOR 'STAR-LEDGER'". editorandpublisher.com. Archived from the original on 2015-03-28.
  9. Dorothee Brantz; Sasha Disko; Georg Wagner-Kyora (March 2014). Thick Space: Approaches to Metropolitanism. transcript Verlag. pp. 310–. ISBN 978-3-8394-2043-0.
  10. Dr Josephine Metcalf; Dr Carina Spaulding (28 July 2015). African American Culture and Society After Rodney King: Provocations and Protests, Progression and "Post-Racialism". Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. pp. 41–. ISBN 978-1-4724-5539-0.
  11. Keenan Norris (15 November 2013). Street Lit: Representing the Urban Landscape. Scarecrow Press. pp. 11–. ISBN 978-0-8108-9263-7.
  12. "Deval Patrick, stumping for Obama in Charlotte, will also be auditioning for higher office". Boston.com.
  13. https://www.nytimes.com/books/best-sellers/2016/07/03/hardcover-nonfiction/?_r=0
  14. "Book Review—The Rejected Stone—Al Sharpton and the Path to American Leadership by Al Sharpton with Nick Chiles". tnj.com.
  15. "Nonfiction Book Review: The Blueprint: A Plan for Living Above Life's Storms by Kirk Franklin". PublishersWeekly.com.
  16. Michael Lindgren (27 July 2012). ""Fatherhood: Rising to the Ultimate Challenge" by Etan Thomas with Nick Chiles". Washington Post.
  17. https://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-thompson/wrestling-with-justice-wh_b_6413202.html
  18. https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/moviesnow/la-et-mn-naacp-image-awards-2014-full-list-of-nominees-20141209-story.html
  19. https://www.amazon.com/Engage-Connect-Protect-Empowering-Environmental/dp/0865719187/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=angelou+ezeilo+nick+chiles&qid=1571244400&s=books&sr=1-1
  20. "WEDDINGS Denene Millner and Nicholas Chiles". New York Times, Published: August 24, 1997
  21. Johnson Publishing Company (20 November 2000). Jet. Johnson Publishing Company. pp. 12–. ISSN 0021-5996.
  22. The Crisis Publishing Company, Inc. (2008). The Crisis. The Crisis Publishing Company, Inc. pp. 21–. ISSN 0011-1422.
  23. "A LOVE STORY ". Publisher Weekly
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