Bio: Hank Nuwer is the Indiana-based
author of Broken Pledges: The Deadly Rite of Hazing, High School
Hazing,
Wrongs of Passage and The Hazing Reader. Other books of his
are on young-adult books on steroids, Olympian Jesse
Owens, and college sports recruiting issues.
His main focus now is a non-hazing project, a biography of Kurt
Vonnegut for Indiana University Press, and a history of
hazing in the nineteenth cenury.
Before retiring he hopes to write a history of athletic hazing
(partially finished) as a social issue and a young adult novel
(partially finished) on high school athletic hazing. When younger he
enjoyed writing participatory articles in magazines
that found him on the losing end of stints as a minor league first
baseman, rodeo bullrider and discus thrower.
He retired from college teaching from IUPUI after 12 years in 2007. He
continues to teach at Franklin College in Indiana.
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