Oney, Steve, 1954-

Steve Oney was born in 1954 and attended the University of Georgia and Harvard University, where he was a Nieman Fellow. He worked for many years as a staff writer for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution Magazine. He has also contributed articles to many national publications. In 2003 he published And The Dead Shall Rise, a non-fiction accounting of the murder of Mary Phagan and the lynching of Leo Frank. And the Dead Shall Rise won the American Bar Association's Silver Gavel Award for best work on the nation's legal system, the National Jewish Book Award for history, the Southern Book Critics Circle Prize for best nonfiction book about the South, and the Georgia Historical Society's Malcolm and Muriel Barrrow Bell Award. Oney's journalism has been frequently anthologized, appearing in such collections as The Best American Magazine Writing 2008, The Best American Sports Writing 2006, and Southern Cultures, the Fifteenth Anniversary Reader.