NEW YORK (AP) — Authors of books-in-progress on subjects ranging from Edgar Allan Poe to subway vigilante Bernhard Goetz are among this year's 10 recipients of $40,000 Whiting grants for nonfiction.

Soon afterward, I was made lead reporter for the trial of subway gunman Bernhard Goetz. Both the commission coverage and the Goetz trial gave notice that Newsday was a force to be reckoned with in ...