On Feb. 7, 2000, during a fumbled jewelry robbery in Pikesville, four men, including the other Wes Moore and his older half-brother, Tony, killed a jewelry store security guard.

Wes Moore and his sisters at KPCC's Mohn Broadcast Center on May 25, 2010. Wes & sisters at the Mohn Broadcast Center (Gina Delvac/KPCC) The Other Wes Moore ...

Moore could not even mail a bound copy of “The Other Wes Moore” to the jail; instead, he sent 15 pages at a time. The felon's reaction? First, how much research had been done, and second ...

In his early 20s, he was arrested along with his older brother for the slaying of a guard who tried to stop them as they fled from a jewelry store robbery. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates ...

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, ...

Wes Moore talked about his book [The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates] (Spiegel & Grau, 2010). In 2000, Wes Moore had recently been named a Rhodes Scholar in his final year of college at Johns ...

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, a leading Democratic candidate for governor of Maryland, first became famous for his 2010 bestselling memoir, “The Other Wes Moore,” an inspirational story of two boys with the same ...

Author Wes Moore's new book chronicles the paths of two men who share same name, but lead very different lives. IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser.

His family’s economic precarity, and the danger of the Bronx streets, were real; if his family succeeded in going to great lengths to protect him from them, while the other Wes Moore lacked ...

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.