writing from the Society for Professional Journalists 2015 Best American Newspaper Narrative award In May 2016, Barry was given an honorary doctorate by his alma mater, St. Bonaventure University, after which he delivered the commencement address for the graduating class of 2016. In 2018, Barry was named recipient of the Story in the Public Square, awarded by the Pell Center for International Relations and Public Policy Bibliography · Pull Me Up (2004) — memoir of Barry's Long Island Irish Catholic upbringing and battle with cancer · City Lights: Stories About New York (2007) — collection of Barry's "About New York" columns · Bottom of the 33rd: Hope, Redemption, and Baseball’s Longest Game (HarperCollins, 2011; paperback March 2012) — about the longest game in professional baseball history · The Boys in the Bunkhouse: Servitude and Salvation in the Heartland (HarperCollins, 2016) – about the exploitation of a group of Texas men with intellectual disability who worked for decades in a turkey-processing plant in eastern Iowa · This Land: America, Lost and Found (Black Dog & Leventhal, 2018) – a collection of Barry's national "This Land" columns. References External links Barry bio on the New York Times website Barry's New York Times columns People from Deer Park, New York People from Maplewood, New Jersey St. Bonaventure University alumni New York University alumni 1950s births Living people The New York Times Pulitzer Prize winners The New York Times columnists The Providence Journal people 20th-century American journalists American male journalists