Don Aucoin

Aucoin is a feature writer for the The Boston Globe and a coauthor of the top-10 New York Times best-seller "Last Lion: The Fall and Rise of Ted Kennedy.'' His work is included in "Best Newspaper Writing 2006-2007.'' In 2000-2001, he was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. He has written about theater, film, and television for the Globe and other newspapers, including reviews, features, and interviews with such figures as August Wilson, Tom Hanks, Conan O'Brien, John Patrick Shanley, Lloyd Richards, and James Gandolfini. He writes a monthly "Voices'' column in the "g'' section of the Globe.

Aucoin was a reporter in the Globe's State House and City Hall bureaus, where he covered numerous political campaigns, including the nationally-spotlighted US Senate contests between Ted Kennedy and Mitt Romney in 1994 and between John Kerry and William F. Weld in 1996. During both those campaign years, he was the lead reporter on the Globe's groundbreaking civic-journalism project. He has worked as a staff writer on the Boston Globe Magazine. He has won national journalism awards for a magazine story about the struggle of a mentally disabled man to live independently after decades in a state institution, and for series about a Catholic church's struggles to come to grips with the clergy sex-abuse crisis.