In December of 2000, Wes Moore saw his name in the newspaper when The Baltimore Sun ran a blurb about how he’d just been awarded a prestigious Rhodes scholarship to do post graduate work at Oxford.

“The Other Wes Moore” is the result of that letter and subsequent correspondence between the two men, each eager to meet his namesake and to try to understand how their lives – similar at ...

Judy Woodruff talks to Baltimore native Wes Moore about his new book, 'The Other Wes Moore' which explores the stories of two inner-city young men who share the same name, but lead very different ...

The Sun’s Michael Sragow got a chance to talk with Baltimore native Wes Moore, whose new book, “The Other Wes Moore,” explores the way that family, luck and other factors can determine the ...

Muhammad, joined by his brother Kenny Ebron, spoke with FOX45 about candidate Moore’s book, "The Other Wes Moore," and the conversation unfolding about whether the candidate exaggerated claims ...

Struck by the similar name, Moore writes that he couldn’t forget about the other Wes Moore. He contacted him in prison, corresponded and visited. This book was born of that connection.

Wes Moore, author of Sacramento State’s 2016-17 One Book selection, The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates, is the keynote speaker for the DEGREES (Dedicated to Educating, Graduating, and Retaining ...

Moore also tells us, apropos the other Wes Moore's success as a dealer, that there are 100,000 drug addicts in Baltimore, a city of 700,000. He does not wonder, however, what makes this possible ...

The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates, is one of 2011's most popular common reads. In the book, author Wes Moore tracks his own life, alongside the fate of another man of the same name.

Book Review Saving Boys What can be done to prevent them from failing? (June 1, 2010) View Comments Add Comment by Sara Fritz Wes Moore Two African-American boys are born into poverty in Baltimore.

As readers of his bestselling book "The Other Wes Moore" know, Wes Moore was the child of a single mother and had a troubled childhood.He tells Here & Now's Jeremy Hobson he "was on academic and ...