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Michael A. Kroll
Biography
A Finalist in the 2022 Next Generation Indie Book Awards for his first novel, "Soul of the Matter", Michael A. Kroll is an award-winning journalist and story teller, specializing in issues of justice and injustice. Selected for “Special Recognition” by the Eugene Block Journalism Awards for “outstanding coverage of human rights issues,” Kroll draws on those issues in "Soul of the Matter".
Having grown up in the beautiful Ojai Valley in Southern California, Kroll attended the University of California at Berkeley, majoring in political science and graduating in 1965, a few months after being arrested in the Free Speech Movement. He taught in an all-Chinese secondary school in the jungles of Malaysian Borneo for the Peace Corps, and taught Adult Education in East Los Angeles, Honolulu, New Orleans, Atlanta and Washington, D.C. Michael Kroll has fought against the death penalty and for criminal justice reform by working as a Mitigation Specialist in many death penalty cases, and heading such organizations as the National Moratorium on Prison Construction and the Death Penalty Information Center.
Michael has been published widely in newspapers from The New York Times to the Los Angeles Times, and in publications as disparate as The Nation and Progressive magazines on one hand, and Women’s World on the other. He has had memoir pieces published, including “McCarthyism Goes Postal,” (Ojai Quarterly, winter 2015-’16) and “Land Snakes Alive,” (Trajectory Journal, Spring 2018). He has a published book-length memoir, "Beijing and Beyond", chronicling a 1981 tour of China’s coming-of-age criminal justice system. These pieces, among others, can be found on his web page: www.michael-a-kroll.com.
Kroll leads writing workshops in juvenile halls, facilitates a memoir-writing group of seniors, and posts many of his published pieces on his website. In addition to writing, he also records as a Voice Over artist from his home studio in Oakland, California. (michaelsvoice.net).
Having grown up in the beautiful Ojai Valley in Southern California, Kroll attended the University of California at Berkeley, majoring in political science and graduating in 1965, a few months after being arrested in the Free Speech Movement. He taught in an all-Chinese secondary school in the jungles of Malaysian Borneo for the Peace Corps, and taught Adult Education in East Los Angeles, Honolulu, New Orleans, Atlanta and Washington, D.C. Michael Kroll has fought against the death penalty and for criminal justice reform by working as a Mitigation Specialist in many death penalty cases, and heading such organizations as the National Moratorium on Prison Construction and the Death Penalty Information Center.
Michael has been published widely in newspapers from The New York Times to the Los Angeles Times, and in publications as disparate as The Nation and Progressive magazines on one hand, and Women’s World on the other. He has had memoir pieces published, including “McCarthyism Goes Postal,” (Ojai Quarterly, winter 2015-’16) and “Land Snakes Alive,” (Trajectory Journal, Spring 2018). He has a published book-length memoir, "Beijing and Beyond", chronicling a 1981 tour of China’s coming-of-age criminal justice system. These pieces, among others, can be found on his web page: www.michael-a-kroll.com.
Kroll leads writing workshops in juvenile halls, facilitates a memoir-writing group of seniors, and posts many of his published pieces on his website. In addition to writing, he also records as a Voice Over artist from his home studio in Oakland, California. (michaelsvoice.net).
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Books
Soul of the Matter
by Michael A. Kroll
Price:
$2.99 USD.
Words: 47,330.
Language:
English.
Published: April 5, 2022
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Categories:
Fiction » Mystery & detective » Historical, Fiction » African American fiction » Historical
This mystery is a "Whydunnit" rather than a "Whodunnit." Beginning with a mysterious suicide, the narrator takes us on a journey to learn why the man he dubs "Soul Man" chose to end it all, right in front of his eyes.
Beijing And Beyond: Eating (And Spending) Our Way Through China, With Personal Reflections On China’s Coming-Of-Age Criminal Justice System... And Of My Fellow Travelers, 1981
by Michael A. Kroll
Price:
$9.99 USD.
Words: 59,540.
Language:
English.
Published: October 29, 2014
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Categories:
Nonfiction » Travel » Trip Journals
This photograph-rich memoir recounts a three-week trek through China's criminal justice system in 1981, just emerging from the destruction of the Cultural Revolution. You'll visit some seldom-seen institutions, like prisons and reform schools, but also meander through amusing commentary on what it is like to travel with 30 "well-heeled" professionals with an inflated sense of their own importance.