ProPublica spent years investigating the attack on the bestselling author and the wrongly convicted man who lost decades of ...

In ProPublica's sprawling reexamination of the rape case at the center of Alice Sebold's memoir Lucky, the real mystery isn't ...

Alice Sebold misidentified Anthony Broadwater as her rapist 40 years ago. He was exonerated last week, though he already served 16 years in prison for the crime. She wrote: "I want to say that I am ...

Syracuse, NY — ProPublica has published a damning account of how Syracuse authorities bungled the 1981 investigation into ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. On May 8, 1981, while Syracuse University student Alice Sebold walked ...

Author Alice Sebold, pictured in 2007, has written an apology to the man wrongly convicted of her rape. (Tina Fineberg / Associated Press) Alice Sebold, the author whose 1999 memoir "Lucky" revisited ...

I knew very little about memoir when I began a graduate program in nonfiction. I thought I would study personal essays and narrative journalism. Most of my classmates, however, wrote memoir, works of ...

On Tuesday, author Alice Sebold formally apologized to the man who, almost 40 years ago, was charged with her rape. Anthony Broadwater had his conviction overturned last week, for which he served 16 ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The memoir at the center of a wrongful rape conviction and subsequent ...

The film adaptation of Alice Sebold’s memoir Lucky has been dropped following Anthony J. Broadwater’s exoneration. Pic credit: ©ImageCollect.com/Fernando-Leon ...

"I am sorry most of all for the fact that the life you could have led was unjustly robbed from you," the author wrote in a statement. A judge... Nearly four decades after identifying the wrong person ...

Anthony Broadwater served 16 undeserved years in prison after Alice Sebold wrongly identified him as the man who raped her in 1981 when she was a freshman at Syracuse University. As previously ...