Nate Blakeslee is a journalist and author in the United States. He wrote a book about a corrupt lawman persecuting mostly African American residents of Tulia, Texas and a book about the

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, an American wolf. He has written for the '' Texas Observer'' and is a Senior Editor for '' Texas Monthly''. He is from

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and studied journalism in graduate school at

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. Film rights for his book on the Tulia drug busts and former NAACP lawyer

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's efforts in pursuit of justice were acquired in 2017.

Writings

*''Tulia: Race, Cocaine and Corruption in a Small Texas Town'', Won the 2005

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for excellence in nonfiction and was a finalist for the PEN/Martha Albrand Award, *''American Wolf: A True Story of Survival and Obsession in the West'', Crown, ISBN 978-1-101-90278-3

Articles

*"Alex Jones is About to Explode" *"Can a Transgender Woman Get Justice in Texas?"

References

21st-century American journalists 21st-century American non-fiction writers Southwestern University alumni People from Arlington, Texas Year of birth missing (living people) Living people {{Journalist-stub