September 4-6, 2009

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The AJC Decatur Book Festival Presented by DeKalb Medical

Niall Stanage

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Festival Appearance(s):

Niall Stanage was born in Belfast in 1974, and raised in that city during the political conflict known as "The Troubles.” Redemption Song: An Irish Reporter Inside the Obama Campaign (Liberties Press) draws on Niall’s experiences covering Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign, and is described as “an extraordinary book” by the Irish News, “terrific” by the Dublin Evening Herald and “a gripping account” by Ulster Tatler. Niall followed Obama’s White House quest from its earliest days, in due course becoming one of only a handful of foreign-born reporters to travel on board the candidate’s campaign jet. He had the privilege of witnessing first-hand all the major landmarks on Obama’s path to the presidency, from the candidate’s early victory in the Iowa caucuses through his acceptance of the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination before a huge crowd in Denver, and on to the unforgettable night in Chicago when he became America’s first black president. Redemption Song aside, he is best known to American readers for his journalism for The New York Observer, where he contributes a mixture of political reporting and commentary. His “day job” is covering the U.S. for a national Irish newspaper, The Sunday Business Post. In addition, he has written for The Wall Street Journal, The American Spectator, The Guardian (UK) and the Irish Independent.
Niall is also a regular guest on radio and TV on both sides of the Atlantic, notably on Fox News Channel, the BBC, and the BBC’s Irish equivalent, RTE. Prior to coming to live and work in the United States in 2003, he was the youngest-ever editor of Ireland’s main politics magazine, Magill. He was educated at Methodist College, Belfast, and Oxford University’s St. Edmund Hall. He lives in Harlem, New York. His Web site is niallstanage.com.

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