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name: Tom Dunkel
about: Tom Dunkel is a Washington, D.C.-based freelance journalist. He has been a contributor to The Washington Post Magazine for more than 20 years. Other credits include The New York Times Magazine, Sports Illustrated, and Smithsonian. He also was a staff features writer at The Baltimore Sun and a contributing editor at George, John Kennedy's genre-bending politics and culture magazine. His new book, White Knights in the Black Orchestra, will be released October 11 by Hachette. It is narrative nonfiction about some members of the German resistance before and during World War II. The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded him a "Public Scholar" grant in support of this project. The New York Post named White Knights one of the 17 best nonf Tom Dunkel is a Washington, D.C.-based freelance journalist. He has been a contributor to The Washington Post Magazine for more than 20 years. Other credits include The New York Times Magazine, Sports Illustrated, and Smithsonian. He also was a staff features writer at The Baltimore Sun and a contributing editor at George, John Kennedy's genre-bending politics and culture magazine. His new book, White Knights in the Black Orchestra, will be released October 11 by Hachette. It is narrative nonfiction about some members of the German resistance before and during World War II. The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded him a "Public Scholar" grant in support of this project. The New York Post named White Knights one of the 17 best nonfiction reads for Fall 2022, calling it "a fascinating look at…a loose network of German military officers, diplomats, politicians, and civilians who risked their lives to undermine the Third Reich…” Dunkel's first book, Color Blind, was released in 2013. It also is narrative nonfiction, the story of an integrated semipro baseball team that played in North Dakota during the Great Depression and whose marquee player was Satchel Paige, star pitcher and folk hero of the Negro Leagues. Booklist named Color Blind one of the Top 10 Sports Books of 2013. ...more