“Truevine: Two Brothers, a Kidnapping, and a Mother’s Quest” is a non-fiction book that was released in 2016. While she shows how he uses factory efficiencies, legal maneuvers, and sheer cunning and grit to save hundreds of jobs, she also reveals the truth about modern industry in America. Beth brings to life his deeply personal family and furniture tale, along with a host of characters from an industry that was just as colorful as it was cutthroat. He was a determined and shrewd third-generation factory man, and now chairman of Vaughan-Bassett Furniture Co., which employs over 700 Virginians and has sales of over $90 million. John Bassett III, was one man who fought back. However starting in the 1980s, the first waves of Asian competition started to hit, and ultimately Bassett was forced to send production overseas. Ran by the same powerful Virginia family for generations, it was also the center of life in Bassett, Virginia. The Bassett Furniture Company was the world’s largest wood furniture manufacturer. One man’s battle to save hundreds of jobs by demonstrating the greatness of American business. “Factory Man: How One Furniture Maker Battled Offshoring” is a non-fiction book that was released in 2014.

During her acceptance speech, she talked about America’s struggles with opioid addiction. In 2022, Beth received the USC Scripter Award for her writing along with her and her scripter Danny Strong being given an additional award for the episode of “Dopesick” called “The People vs Purdue Pharma”. In 2019, “Dopesick” was shortlisted for the 2019 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction. “Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America” was adapted into a limited run series that aired on Hulu in 2021. In the year 2010, she received the Nieman Fellowship for Journalism by Harvard University. Beth writes op-eds and essays for The New York Times as well as online journals, magazines, and radio. She got a master’s degree in creative writing from Hollins University in 1993.įrom 1989 to 2014, Beth was a reporter for The Roanoke Times. She grew up in Urbana, Ohio, and got her bachelor’s degree in journalism from Bowling Green State University in the year 1986. Beth Macy is an American non fiction writer and journalist.

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