James Barron

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About The Author

James Barron is a reporter on the metropolitan staff of the New York Times. He wrote the minute-by-minute stories on the 9/11 attacks for the Times on the web and the front page lead story on the 2003 blackout. He initiated the 'Public Lives' column, later called 'Boldface Names', and writes a podcast for the Times's website summarising the next morning's front page. He is the author of Piano: The Making of a Steinway Concert Grand.

Books by James Barron

One Cent Magenta
By James Barron
When it was issued in 1856, it cost a penny. When it was sold at Sotheby's in 2014, the tiny square of faded red paper known as the one-cent magenta cost nearly $US9.5 million, making it the world's most valuable object by weight.Printed in what was then British Guiana, one-cent magentas were pro...
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