For Alison: The Murder of a Young Journalist and a Father's Fight for Gun Safety - Hardcover

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Andy Parker is the father of Alison Parker, a journalist killed on live television, and a national gun reform advocate who has appeared on all major news networks—CNN, MSNBC, CBS, ABC, NBC, and Fox News—on programs such as CBS Sunday Morning, Face the Nation,Anderson Cooper 360, Hardball with Chris Matthews, The Last Word With Lawrence O'Donnell, and many more; he has written op-eds for a variety of publications, such as Washington Post, New York Daily News, Medium, CNN.com, Huffington Post, and Newsweek; and has been interviewed for publications ranging from the New York Times, and Time magazine. He is called upon to respond to each mass shooting in America, and has worked forcefully to get Google and YouTube to stop letting videos of murders, like Alison's, go viral. Together with his wife, Barbara, Parker runs the For Alison Foundation, which creates opportunities for children in southern Virginia to experience the arts. He lives in Martinsville, VA.

Senator Tim Kaine has represented the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States Senate since 2013. He was the Democratic Party's nominee for Vice President of the United States in the 2016 election, running alongside Hillary Clinton, and the governor of Virginia from 2006 to 2010.

Ben R. Williams is a writer and editor, and formerly a reporter at the Martinsville Bulletin. He has won several Virginia Press Association awards for news coverage, column writing, and photography.