99 Nights with the 99 Percent: Dispatches from the First Three Months of the Occupy Revolution
Chris Faraonewas born in 1979 and raised inQueens, NY, the son of a teacher mother and a father who published novelty books about hugs and farts. As an intelligent teen with a penchant for finding trouble, he studied his way out of a life of low-level crime to graduate fromHobart Collegebefore post-grad studies atNew York's New SchoolandBoston University's College of Communication- he earned a Master's in Journalism in 2004 from the latter. After graduation, Faraone dove into the field of professional writing as a hip-hop music critic, earning rent money and acclaim reporting forThe Source, Spin, the Boston Herald,Boston's Weekly DigandBoston Magazine. He landed on staff at theBoston Phoenixin 2008.Since then he has continued his renowned music writing, in the past two years has become known nationally for his unique, unflinching work as a political and investigative journalist. His cover story features - ranging from profiles of drug dealers and entrepreneurs to exposés on abuses in state correctional facilities - appear in thePhoenixon a weekly basis. He has received multiple accolades and awards since 2009 from theAssociation of Alternative News Media (AAN)and theNew England Newspaper & Press Association (NENPA)for his investigative and news reporting. He is the founder ofWrite To Power Books(WriteToPower.net) and resides in Boston's hyper-progressive Jamaica Plain neighborhood, where it's nearly impossible to walk into a bar without running into a gaggle of Occupiers.