Mike McAlary was born on December 15, 1957. He was a writer, known for City by the Sea (2002), New York News (1995) and The Paper (1994). He died on December 25, 1998.
McAlary won a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting of New York City's Abner Louima police-assault scandal in 1997. He would die a year later of colon cancer at age 41, after having earlier survived a car crash and coma and his own scandal of journalism ethics.
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'The Wood,' a play based on his life written by Dan Klores, opened at Manhattan's Rattlesnake Playwrights Theatre in August, 2011.
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