Jason Berry is an author and documentary producer. "City of a Million Dreams: New Orleans History at Year 300" [2018] is the subject of his latest film which treats jazz funerals as a prism
on the city's evolution. "Up From the Cradle of Jazz: New Orleans Music Since World War II," has an updated edition with extensive coverage of the Hurricane Katrina recovery [2009]. He has done landmark works on the crisis in the Catholic Church, including "Lead Us Not into Temptation" (1992) for which he received the ChildUSA Sean McIlMail Hero Award;"Vows of Silence: The Abuse of Power in the Papacy of John Paul II" with Gerald Renner [2004], the subject of an award-winning 2008 documentary; and "Render unto Rome: The Secret Life of Money in the Catholic Church" [2011]," which received Investigative Reporters and Editors Best
Book Award. He has received Guggenheim, NEH and Alicia Patterson fellowships for his New Orleans research and is a contributor to The Guardian. His 2006 comic novel, “Last of the Red-Hot Poppas,” is in a new edition with UL Press. He was a 2024 visiting fellow at Civitella Ranieri in Italy.
