JACK HAMANN lives in Seattle, where he is an author and journalist. His career spans twenty-eight years, including a decade as a network correspondent and documentary producer for CNN and PBS. His work has earned dozens of journalism honors, including ten regional Emmy awards.

Jack’s assignments have taken him around the world. He's been inside a pen with wild wolves in Yellowstone National Park, inside a prison with convicted killers in Siberia, thirty miles offshore with fishermen chasing giant tuna in the North Atlantic, three miles above sea level with peasants battling blight in Peru, and miles from nowhere mushing a team of champion dogs in the Yukon. His lifetime travel also includes Cuba, China, South Africa, Nepal, Russia, Japan, Taiwan, Thailand, Panama, Brazil, Argentina and most of Europe and North America, including all 50 states (Arkansas was #50).

Jack is the author of On American Soil: How Justice Became a Casualty of WWII (Algonquin Books, 2005 | University of Washington Press, 2007), a nonfiction investigative account of one of the largest and most controversial events in American civil rights history. On American Soil was selected as the outstanding investigative book of 2005 by Investigative Reporters and Editors, Inc. The book was directly responsible for an October 26, 2007 decision by the US Army Board for Correction of Military Records to overtun the verdicts in the infamous1944 Fort Lawton court-martial.

Jack is the winner of the 2007 Horace Mann award, an honor bestowed on those who have achieved "victories for humanity."

Jack is a graduate of UCLA (B.A. Economics, 1976) and the University of Oregon School of Law (J.D., 1980).

Jack and his wife, Leslie, coach girls’ volleyball at Garfield High School in Seattle. They have two grown children.

BOOKS

Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
On American Soil: How Justice Became a Casualty of WWII (2005) [hardcover]

University of Washington Press
On American Soil: How Justice Became a Casualty of WWII (2007) [paperback]

DOCUMENTARIES

PBS
Generation IX (2007)
Hot Potatoes (2001)
Faith & Fear: The Children of Krishna (2001)
Green Plans (1995)

CNN
The Russia Factor (1999)
Peace Frogs (1997)
The Earth Summit (1992)

KING-TV (NBC)
The Quake and the Lives it Shook (1989)
Discovery Park Graves (1987)
Shelter from the Storm (1986)
Mary and Zola: After the Fall (1985)
Diane Downs: Circle of Abuse (1984)

AWARDS

National/International
2008 Women's Sports Foundation Billie Award (Finalist)
2007 Horace Mann Award (Winner)
2006 Investigative Reporters & Editors, Inc. (Book of the Year)
2005 Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers (Selection)
2002 Silver Chris (Winner)
2002 National Press Club (Honorable Mention)
2000 CINE Golden Eagle (Winner)
2000 Communicator (Winner)
2000 Chris (Honorable Mention)
2000 Headliner (First Place)
1997 Headliner (Third Place)
1996 CableACE (Finalist)
1995 CableACE (Finalist)
1995 Chicago Film Festival (Merit)
1994 Houston Film Festival (Gold)
1994 New York Film Festival (Silver)
1994 Environmental Media (Finalist)
1993 CableACE (Winner)
1992 Environmental Media (First Place)
1990 Monitor (Finalist)
1987 Livingston (Finalist)
1986 Livingston (Finalist)
1986 Iris (Finalist)
1984 New York Film Festival (Silver)

Regional
2006 Washington State Book Award (Finalist)
2005 Seattle Post-Intelligencer Top Ten Book of 2005
2005 Barnes & Noble Star of Washington (Winner)
2002 Emmy (Documentary)
1990 Emmy (News Special)
1990 Emmy (Investigative News)
1990 Emmy (News Feature)
1988 Emmy (News Special)
1987 Emmy (Spot News)
1986 Emmy (Sports Special)
1986 Emmy (Sports News)
1986 Emmy (Biography Special)
1985 Emmy (News Feature)
1984-02 Emmy (21 Finalists)
1984-91 SPJ (5 First Places)