Selected journalism

The Girl Who Could Fly
She was overweight, a chain-smoker and deeply unhappy. Then Patti Dillon began to run.

NASA's Deep-Space Dreamer
Gene Cernan, the last man on the moon, saw the potential power and glory of the slumbering space program.

The Rise of Katherine Dunn
How the late Portland author survived hard times and became a literary legend.

The Detective Who Knew Too Much
Don DuPay's police career haunts him. He's still trying to get justice.​

Red-Hot Songstress
Jazz chanteuse Lavay Smith takes her sex-powered musical-resurrection act nationwide.

Loh and Behold
How author and performer Sandra Tsing Loh became our laugh-out-loud poet of self-doubt.

Now She's Talking
Accused of protecting a philandering president and sent to prison, Susan McDougal wouldn't back down.

The Heartbreaker
Memories of a high-school dream girl who dreamed beyond her reach.

The Rise and Fall of the Cascades
How a plucky squad of underdogs crashed team tennis' free-spending party -- and didn't live to tell about it.