Jim Dwyer is an American journalist who is a reporter and columnist with The New York Times. A native New Yorker, Dwyer wrote columns for New York Newsday and the New York Daily News before joining the Times. He graduated from the Loyola School , earned a bachelor's degree in general science from Fordham University in 1979 and a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University in 1980. He also developed a 135kW cogeneration plant and a 50.54 kW photovoltaic solar panel system for his cooperative apartment building in Manhattan. In 1992, Dwyer was a member of a team at Newsday that... won the Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Reporting, and in 1995, as a columnist with Newsday, he received the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary. Dwyer is the author or co-author of four books, mentioned below: His latest, 102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers, co-written with Kevin Flynn, an editor at The New York Times Company, was a 2005 National Book Award finalist. The book chronicled the 102 minutes that the twin towers of the World Trade Center stood after the attacks of September 11, 2001 began.
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