Wes was taught himself to forget, and never ask why. We learned our lessons well, and were showing them off to a tee. We sat there, just a few feet from each other, both silent, pondering an absence.

The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates, is one of 2011's most popular common reads. In the book, author Wes Moore tracks his own life, alongside the fate of another man of the same name.

Wes Moore talked about his book [The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates] (Spiegel & Grau, 2010). In 2000, Wes Moore had recently been named a Rhodes Scholar in his final year of college at Johns ...

The Sun’s Michael Sragow got a chance to talk with Baltimore native Wes Moore, whose new book, “The Other Wes Moore,” explores the way that family, luck and other factors can determine the ...

The other Wes Moore had run-ins with the law. He tried to get out of the drug business and earned his G.E.D and graduated from a jobs program, but he struggled to make enough to support himself ...

“The Other Wes Moore” is a book that bridges the gap between Inner Harbor and inner city in the most startling and revelatory ways. The title might suggest the tale of a hidden life.

Part autobiography, part dramatic narrative, "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" (2011) is a book that defies genre, expectations and even — for the most part — cynicism. The common reading ...

In December of 2000, Wes Moore saw his name in the newspaper when The Baltimore Sun ran a blurb about how he’d just been awarded a prestigious Rhodes scholarship to do post graduate work at Oxford.