Book Event with William Ruberry

Book People welcomes Award-winning journalist William Matthew Ruberry on Saturday, March 1st at 2:00 PM. William will discuss his newest novel Harmony in Black and White.
In solving the mystery of why the former Capital of the Confederacy has the nation’s highest murder rate, a music-loving rookie newspaper reporter uncovers the truth about himself.
Jack Sullivan is a rookie reporter at the Messenger newspaper in Richmond, Virginia. When he’s assigned to the local police beat, he never expects to uncover a network of crime amid the systemic racism enshrined in the city’s Confederate history. 
As the young journalist pulls at the threads of a story that spans from a record high in city homicides to interstate arms running, he is forced to confront the prejudices that color his young life and career. 
Inspired by the author’s own reporting in the wake of the march by White supremacists in Charlottesville and the murder of George Floyd, Harmony in Black and White is an unflinching newsroom drama and an examination of the impact of race and implicit biases on our media, law enforcement, and the systems that govern them.
 
Award-winning journalist William Matthew Ruberry lives with his wife and two big dogs in Heathsville, on the Northern Neck of Virginia where the Potomac River meets the Chesapeake Bay. 
​Ruberry was born in Chicago and grew up in Cherry Hill, N.J., and Alexandria, Va. 
​He worked as a reporter for the Greenville News in South Carolina, then as an award-winning reporter, columnist, Washington correspondent, and editor for the Richmond Times-Dispatch in Virginia.​
He has a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and master’s degree in journalism and public affairs from American University in Washington, D.C.