Beth Macy is an award-winning journalist & author of the 2018 New York Times-bestselling book, "Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America."
She writes about outsiders and underdogs. Her writing has won over a dozen national journalism awards, including a Nieman Fellowship for Journalism at Harvard. The daughter of a factory worker mom and housepainter dad (an eighth-grade dropout), she was the first in her family to go to college.
Beth was Artemis Journals' guest writer in 2015 in which we dedicated our journal to her for her courage of conviction for bringing her story of all the factory workers to life in her book, Factory Man. Her first book exposed how one furniture maker battled offshoring by China and helped save an American town here in SW Virginia. The book was a New York Times bestseller winning numerous awards. Tom Hanks brought the rights for a movie.
Her second book, "Truevine: Two Brothers, a Kidnapping, and a Mother's Quest: A True Story of the Jim Crow South," debuted on the NYT Bestseller list in October 2016 and told the story of George and Willie Muse, two Black albinos who were kidnapped and sold into servitude with the circus, where they became international stars with the Ringling Brothers and other well-known circuses and sideshows of in the 1920s.
Her third book "Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America" was published in 2018. Also, a New York Times Bestseller and additionally was produced by the TV channel Hulu with a limited series consisting of eight episodes based on Macy's book, in which she co-wrote and was an Executive Producer.
In a follow-up to "Dopesick," Beth wrote "Finding Tess," an Audible podcast about a mother searching for answers in Dopesick America and narrating the book. Tess Henry was found dead in a dumpster in Las Vegas after battling her addiction to opioids.
Following up with all that, Beth published an opinion piece in the Washington Post in February 2022 on how more than a million have died on the overdose crisis, and the response is shamefully inadequate.
She lives in Roanoke, Virginia, with her husband Tom, her sons, and rescue mutts Mavis and Charley.
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