Jason Berry, a New Orleans author and documentary filmmaker, gained renown for his landmark reporting Lead Us Not into Temptation: Catholic Priests and the Sexual Abuse of Children in 1992. USA Today called Berry “the rare investigative reporter whose scholarship, compassion and ability to write with the poetic power of Robert Penn Warren are in perfect balance.“ His other church books include Vows of Silence:The Abuse of Power in the Papacy of John Paul II with Gerald Renner (2004) and Render unto Rome: The Secret Life of Money in the Catholic Church (2011). With several awards for his investigative journalism he has been widely interviewed in the media. Jason is also a historian in such books as Up From the Cradle of Jazz: New Orleans Music Since World War II, and most recently City of a Million Dreams, a tricentennial history of New Orleans and subject of a documentary he produced, streaming on PBS. Jason has received Guggenheim and NEH fellowships for his New Orleans research, and an Alicia Patterson Journalism Fellowship for his reporting on demagoguery in Louisiana. He is the subject of a book just out, Conversations with Jason Berry edited by Howard Hunter. Jason is currently at work on a biography of James Carville.
