Beth Macy

Beth Macy (born c. 1964) is an American journalist and non-fiction writer. She is the author of four published books, including national bestsellers Factory Man (2014) and Dopesick (2018).

Early life
The daughter of a factory worker, Sarah Macy Slack, and a housepainter father, Macy grew up in Urbana, Ohio. She was the first in her family to attend college, receiving a bachelor's degree in journalism from Bowling Green State University in 1986. She earned a master's degree in creative writing from Hollins University in 1993.

Career
Macy was a reporter for The Roanoke Times from 1989 to 2014. She writes essays and op-eds for The New York Times as well as magazines, radio and online journals. In 2010, she was awarded the Nieman Fellowship for Journalism by Harvard University.

Her 2018 book, Dopesick, was shortlisted for the 2019 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction.

Television adaptation
In June 2020, Hulu gave a limited series order for a new original production consisting of eight episodes based on Macy's book, Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors and the Drug Company that Addicted America. The series was developed by Danny Strong with Michael Keaton starring.

Awards
In 2022, Macy and Danny Strong won the USC Scripter Award for an episodic series, for the Dopesick episode, "The people vs Purdue Pharma". During her acceptance speech, Macy talked about America's struggle with opioid addiction.

Works

 * Factory Man: How One Furniture Maker Battled Offshoring, Stayed Local—and Helped Save an American Town (2014, Little Brown & Co., ISBN 9780316231435, )
 * Truevine: Two Brothers, a Kidnapping, and a Mother's Quest: A True Story of the Jim Crow South (2016, Little, Brown & Co., ISBN 9780316337540, )
 * Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America (2018, Little, Brown & Co., ISBN 9780316551243, )
 * Finding Tess: A Mother's Search for Answers in a Dopesick America (2019, Audible Original Audiobook, ASIN B07T2NSXHY)
 * Raising Lazarus: Hope, Justice, and the Future of America's Overdose Crisis (2022, Little Brown & Co., ISBN 978-0316430227, )