In her new book, While You Were Out: An Intimate Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence, journalist Meg Kissinger introduces the reader to the family of her childhood. Kissinger grew up in Chicago in the 1960s as one of 8 children. From the outside, everything looked picture perfect; however, inside the home, the family was struggling with a number of metal heath crises.
Kissinger joins host Christina Lieffring to talk about about the book, and Kissinger’s two decades traveling across the country to report on America’s mental health system for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
Kissinger is presenting at the Wisconsin Book Festival on Sunday, October 20th at 12pm at Central Library, Lower Reading Room. More information here.

Meg Kissinger teaches investigative reporting at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and was a visiting professor at DePauw University. Formerly, she was a journalist with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. A Pulitzer Prize finalist, she has won dozens of accolades, including two George Polk Awards, the Robert F. Kennedy Award, awards from Investigative Reporters and Editors, and two National Journalism Awards.
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