Larry Tye, Nieman Fellow '94
Journalist, Book Writer, Oral History Collector
After spending warm-weather weekends in Cotuit, Larry learned it's even better when it empties out on weekdays and in the winter. Spending time as a Nieman Fellow helped him transition from a daily newspaper storyteller to the longer form of books, and from a do-it journalist to teaching it. So now he and his wife are nearly full-time Cotuitans, from where he write books (his ninth, The Jazzmen: How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong and Count Basie Transformed America), is due out next month from HarperCollins) and runs a health journalism fellowship that is entering its twenty-third year. Two more things that bring him joy: doing oral histories of this amazing village for the local historical society and co-spearheading a likely quixotic bid to revive local journalism on this peninsula.