Howie carr biography
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Carr, Howie
PERSONAL:
Born January 17, , in Portland, ME; son of Howard Louis and Frances Stokes (Sutton) Carr; married; wife's name Kathy; children: (first marriage) two daughters; (second marriage) Carolyn, Charlotte, Christina. Education: Graduated from University ofNorth Carolina at Chapel Hill. Religion: Roman Catholic.
ADDRESSES:
Home—Wellesley, MA. Office—WRKO, 20 Guest St., 3rd Fl., Boston, MA E-mail—[email&#;protected].
CAREER:
Broadcaster and journalist. Winston-Salem Journal,Winston-Salem, NC, assistant city editor; Boston Herald American (nowBoston Herald), Boston, MA, Boston City Hall bureau chief, , State House bureau chief, columnist; WNEV (now WHDH), political reporter; The Howie Carr Show, WRKO, Boston, MA, host of syndicated radio program. Has also worked as a reporter and commentator for Boston television stations WGBH and WLVI. Portrayed himself in the feature film A Civil Action.
MEMBER:
Phi Beta Kappa.
AWARDS, HONORS:
National Ma
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Howie Carr is the New York Times best-selling author of The Brothers Bulger and Hitman, in addition to several other Boston organized-crime books and two novels. He is the host of a New England-wide radio talk-show syndicated to more than 20 stations, and is a member of the Radio Hall of Fame in Chicago. He is also a columnist for the Boston Herald, and has won a National Magazine Award for Boston Magazine. He is also a contributor to
Boston organized-crime boss Whitey Bulger was so infuriated by Carr’s groundbreaking reporting that he once put out a murder contract on Carr, a story detailed on 60 Minutes. At his trial on murder and racketeering charges, Bulger tried to have Carr banned from the courtroom by calling him as a defense witness. Before he was brutally murdered in a gangland hit, the crime czar still said his greatest regret was not murdering Carr when he had the chance. Carr once taught a course at Harvard, where he had to cross a picket line against himself to get
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Howie Carr
Howie Carr is an American reporter, author, and conservative radio talk-show host based in Boston with a listening audience rooted in New England. He hosts The Howie Carr Show, broadcast on weekdays, in addition to writing three columns a week for the Boston Herald.
From to , he was the Boston City ingångsrum bureau ledare of the Boston Herald American, and he later worked as the paper's State House bureau chief.
Previously, Carr also worked as a reporter and commentator for Boston television stations WGBH-TV and WLVI.
In , he won the National Magazine Award, for Essays and Criticism. In television, he has been nominated for an Emmy Award.
As an author, Carr has written non-fiction books about gangsters and also two fiction books, Hard Knocks, and Killers.
Carr is a native of Portland, Maine and a graduate of Deerfield Academy and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa.