Katy Butler

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Award-winning journalist and bestselling memoirist KATY BUTLER has written two groundbreaking books about the end of life and is a thought leader in a national movement for medical reform. Her first book, Knocking on Heaven’s Door: the Path to a Better Way of Death, a national bestseller, was named one of the 100 Most Notable Books of 2013 by the New York Times. Her NYT essay, "What Broke My Father's Heart," won the 2011 Science in Society Prize from the National Association of Science Writers and other awards. She is a prior finalist for a National Magazine Award. She has no MFA, but got her post-BA training as a newspaper reporter and at the Wesleyan Writers Conference.

Prize anthology mentions

Best American Essays 2011

Best American Essays 2014*

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