Jack Hart is a writing coach, an author and a former managing editor at The Oregonian, where he also has worked as a reporter, arts and leisure editor, Sunday magazine editor, training editor and editor at large. He has additional reporting experience at two other newspapers, holds a University of Wisconsin doctorate in Mass Communications and has taught at six major universities. He has edited two Pulitzer Prize winners (and contributed to two others), as well as national winners of the ASNE writing awards, the Ernie Pyle award, the Scripps-Howard business-writing award, the Overseas Press Club awards, the Headliners awards and the Society of Professional Journalists feature-writing award. His most recent book is “A Writer’s Coach: An Editor’s Guide to Words That Work,” released as a Pantheon hardback in 2006 and as an Anchor Books paperback in 2007. His forthcoming book, “Storycraft: The Complete Guide to Writing Narrative Nonfiction” (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing) will be published summer 2011.