In a 40-year career, Ritz worked or wrote for newspapers from Seattle to New York City. In his new book, I Never Looked for My Mother and Other Regrets of a Journalist, he tells humorous and surprising stories of reporters and editors.
The book describes the failures and frustrations of a daily newspaper reporter and his impressions of some of the famous people he encountered such as Harry S Truman and Martin Luther King.
It tells of interviewing a multiple murderer and the agony of questioning ordinary men and women who are in the news because of a terrible misfortune such as killing their child. It describes days spent with a mob-connected news source hiding from his associates in Costa Nostra and using a ruse to enter the home of a local Mafia godfather.
The book title comes from Ritz’s not knowing who his parents were .
He describes a childhood with a paranoid foster mother who disguised her voice when she answered the telephone because she believed callers thought she had important secrets and a foster father, some of whose relatives were in the Mafia, and who thought going to college was “a foolish idea”. But this is not a dark book. It is filled with humorous stories.
Overall, the book is a fun-filled journey which leads to an understanding of what the author owes the mismatched couple who raised him and the mother, said to be a sister of two priests, who gave him up.
The book can be purchased at Amazon.com; at the Barnes&Noble web site (bn.com).
Bootlocker.com offers an e-version of the book for $8.95, no shipping charge at this web site:
www.booklocker.com
For an autographed copy, email me at :ritzham@myway.com
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