To say Wright Thompson’s latest book is about Emmett Till’s murder would be to undersell its scope and the author’s ambition.

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I’m culture critic and fervent bookworm Chris Vognar. This week I spoke with Wright Thompson, a Mississippi native whose new nonfiction book, “The Barn,” looks at the murder of Emmett Till f ...

Wright Thompson grew up in the Mississippi Delta, about 30 miles from where the body of Emmett Till was pulled from the Tallahatchie River in 1955. The 14-year-old’s savage murder is widely ...

“Just some guy’s barn,” Wright Thompson tells in his piercing biography of the building, the history of the surrounding landscape and the portraits of people whose stories — and terrible ...

Thompson travels back to his native Mississippi (he grew up in Clarksdale, about 30 miles north of Drew, the closest town to ...

There was never even a discussion of what I would be called. "Walter Wright Thompson, Jr.," he wrote. Walter Wright Thompson, Sr. had grown up in the Mississippi sticks with three brothers.

Wright Thompson is a senior writer for ESPN.com and ESPN The Magazine. He can be reached at [email protected]. If you are Ernie Adams, please contact the writer.

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“The barn… is long and narrow with sliding doors in the middle,” writes Wright Thompson in ‘The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi. This cover image released by Penguin ...

“The barn… is long and narrow with sliding doors in the middle,” writes Wright Thompson in ‘The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi.’ “Nobody knows when it was built ...