Register for this free event at .įormer Milwaukee reporter Meg Kissinger shares her family’s mental health struggles in new bookīy Julia Hunter, Wisconsin Newspaper AssociationĪugFormer Milwaukee reporter Meg Kissinger shares her family’s mental health struggles in new bookīy Julia Hunter, Wisconsin Newspaper Association August 31, 2023 5 at Milwaukee Public Library Centennial Hall, 733 N. Kissinger will talk about her memoir “ While You Were Out” with Jacki Lyden at 6:30 p.m. She now teaches investigative reporting at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and was a visiting professor at DePauw University, her alma mater. Kennedy Award, Investigative Reporters and Editors, and two National Journalism Awards. A Pulitzer Prize finalist, she has won dozens of accolades, including two George Polk Awards, the Robert F. Kissinger, a Milwaukee Journal and Journal Sentinel reporter from 1983 to 2018, grew up in Wilmette, Illinois, the fourth oldest of eight children. Yet two of Kissinger’s seven siblings died by suicide, and a third has lived with persistent mental illness. “There was a lot of love in that house,” a former live-in babysitter for the Kissinger kids says in the book. Through interviewing her surviving siblings digging through diaries and letters, public and medical records and even tracking down a babysitter from decades ago, Kissinger pieces together the portrait of a clan that’s simultaneously loving and troubled, writes Jim Higgins of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
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