In light of the mass loss of September 11, many in the media have struggled to put an individual face on the tragedy. Here reporters for Newsday
and other Tribune papers present brief, moving profiles of scores among the nearly 3,000 dead; the portraits form "a mosaic of American lives," writes Newsday Books editor Harvey Aronson in his preface. Newsday
columnist Shaun Powell memorializes his brother, who worked at the Pentagon; others profiled include the father of a young autistic boy; a businessman who, in 1988, barely missed flying on the ill-fated Pam Am Flight 103; and a 62-year-old jazz singer working as a temp at Cantor Fitzgerald. The portraits are accompanied by a list of all the victims of September 11. (Sept. 11)
