NEWS ANCHOR + REPORTER JEN MAXFIELD BOOK SIGNING AND MEET & GREET EVENT IN TENAFLY, N.J.
MORE AFTER THE BREAK: A Reporter Returns to Ten Unforgettable News Stories
Sunday, September 18, 12:00 PM
Tenafly Public Library
100 Riveredge Road
Tenafly, N.J.
In MORE AFTER THE BREAK: A Reporter Returns to Ten Unforgettable News Stories (Greenleaf Book Group; Available; $26.95), Maxfield revisits stories that have been transformative for the subjects and have also changed her life. Maxfield introduces readers to people whose hopefulness and perseverance, even when these individuals were, and are, confronting life’s greatest heartbreaks, will inspire.
Jen Maxfield will be in person at Tenafly Public Library in Tenafly on Sunday, September 18 at 12:00 PM for a conversation with attendees and Q&A about More After The Break. After the talk, guests will have an opportunity to meet Jen Maxfield and get their book signed.
MORE AFTER THE BREAK shares the stories, both past and present, of:
Paul Esposito, a 24-year-old waiter who lost both legs and nearly lost his life in the horrific 2003 Staten Island ferry crash
Tamika Tompkins, a young mother who was stabbed 27 times by her abusive ex-boyfriend and ultimately was saved by her toddler daughter, who lay on top of her to stop the bleeding
Zaina, the high-achieving 5th grader who survived every parent’s nightmare when her school bus crashed during a field trip and who is now starting high school
Chris Clemente, an Ivy League undergrad sentenced to decades in prison under the now-defunct Rockefeller Drug Laws
The family of Darren Drake, a young man in the prime of his life killed by a terrorist who plowed down a bike path in lower Manhattan
The Ellis and Middleton families, who lost everything in Hurricane Katrina, and the Borelli family, destitute after Hurricane Sandy, along with the Good Samaritans who helped them in their worst moments
Returning to find these people years—even decades—after initially telling their stories on the news gave Maxfield the opportunity to ask: What happened after the live truck pulled away? What’s the rest of this story?
About Jen Maxfield:
Jen Maxfield is an Emmy Award–winning reporter and anchor who joined NBC New York in 2013. Prior to joining the station, she worked for Eyewitness News (ABC7) in New York City as a reporter and substitute anchor for ten years. Maxfield started her broadcast career in 2000 in upstate New York before moving to New York City in 2002. She has reported live from thousands of news events over her 22-year career and estimates that she has interviewed more than ten thousand people.
Maxfield is an adjunct professor at Columbia Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University. A graduate of the class of 2000, she enjoys coming back to her alma mater to educate a new generation of journalists.
Maxfield and her husband met as undergraduates at Columbia University. They live in New Jersey with their three children and dog.