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Stacy Horn

Biography

Stacy Horn

Stacy Horn is the author of five nonfiction books, including IMPERFECT HARMONY. Mary Roach has hailed her for “combining awe-fueled curiosity with topflight reporting skills.” Horn’s commentaries have been heard on NPR’s "All Things Considered" and she is the founder of the social network Echo. She lives in New York City.

Books by Stacy Horn

Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York
by Stacy Horn - History, Nonfiction

Conceived as the most modern, humane incarceration facility the world had ever seen, New York’s Blackwell’s Island, site of a lunatic asylum, two prisons, an almshouse and a number of hospitals, quickly became, in the words of a visiting Charles Dickens, "a lounging, listless madhouse." Digging through city records, newspaper articles and archival reports, Stacy Horn tells a gripping narrative through the voices of the island’s inhabitants. We also hear from the era’s officials, reformers and journalists, including the celebrated undercover reporter Nellie Bly. DAMNATION ISLAND shows how far we’ve come in caring for the least fortunate among us --- and reminds us how much work still remains.

Waiting for My Cats to Die: A Morbid Memoir
by Stacy Horn - Nonfiction