The “other” Wes Moore was convicted of murdering an off-duty security guard on February 7, 2000, and has been serving a life sentence without parole.

In the course of his novel, author Wes Moore takes us on a journey, unearthing layers upon layers, answer after answer to this complicated question. “The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates” is a ...

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 ...

Guest: Wes Moore, author of The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates (Spiegel & Grau). Rhodes Scholar, investment banker and former aide to Condoleezza Rice.

The other Wes Moore became a drug dealer, a thief and a convicted killer. Instead of stoking the “good” Moore with a sense of pride and accomplishment, the contrast bedeviled and haunted him.

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.

The Other Wes Moore: One Name and Two Fates—A Story of Tragedy and Hope Wes Moore, . . Random/Spiegel & Grau, $25 (256pp) ISBN 978-0-385-52819-1 ...