Catherine S. Manegold is a journalist and author who covered international affairs, politics, social issues and wars for The New York Times, Newsweek, The Philadelphia Inquirer and other publications before turning her attention to longer projects and finding her way back to the potter's wheel. The recipient of numerous national awards, in 1993 she was part of the New York Times team awarded a Pulitzer Prize in "spot news" for the paper's coverage of the terrorist bombing of the World Trade Center. Her first book, In Glory's Shadow: Shannon Faulkner, The Citadel, and a Changing America (Knopf, Vintage) explored the history of a legendary Southern institution that resisted social change from its inception as a private army for whites in South Carolina in 1822 through the Civil War, the civil rights movement and finally the battle over admitting a female cadet in the 1990s. Her new book, Ten Hills Farm, traces slavery's root in the North from the time of the Puritans, telling the story of 150 years of slavery on a Massachusetts farm first owned by John Winthrop. Her work on this project has been generously supported by grants and fellowships from the NEH, the American Antiquarian Society, Harvard University and the Newhouse Center for the Humanities at Wellesley College. Ten Hills Farm is due for publication in 2009.