Books and awards Once a Hero (1991) Deliberate Indifference: A Story of Racial Injustice and Murder (1992) Trespasses: Portrait of a Serial Rapist (1996) America's Condemned: Death Row Inmates in Their Own Words (1999, with Dan Malone) Doin' Dirty (2000) Jitter Joint (1999) - later made into the movie D-Tox (a. k. a. Eye See You) (2002) Swindle was Edgar-nominated, and received three Pulitzer Prizes for The Dallas Morning News. Death Swindle underwent surgery for esophageal cancer in 1999 and for lung cancer in 2002. His lung cancer recurred in 2003, and he died on June 9, 2004 in Stephenville, Texas. American male journalists 20th-century American journalists 1945 births 2004 deaths Deaths from lung cancer Deaths from cancer in Texas The Dallas Morning News people 20th-century American novelists American male novelists 20th-century American male writers 20th-century American non-fiction writers