♦ Jesse Pesta is a writer and photographer in New York and a Page One editor at The Wall Street Journal.

He has lived and worked as a journalist in New York, Hong Kong, India and small-town America, where his family published a more-than-century-old local newspaper for many years.

♦ Jesse's photos have been published by The Wall Street Journal, Marie Claire magazine, The Daily Beast and other publications, and shown at Photographic Gallery, Front St., New York; Chrystie Street Gallery, Chrystie St., New York; ABC No Rio, Rivington St., New York; Southern Indiana Center for the Arts; and Edward Hopper House, Nyack, N.Y.

More photos, as well as some short fiction, at this art/photography site created with Maureen O'Hara Pesta and Abigail Pesta.

♦ November 2009: Photos in Marie Claire magazine, "Diary of an Escaped Sex Slave."

♦ Oct. 3, 2009: Interview on WABC's " The John Batchelor Show" about the fate of the SS United States:

♦ Sept. 29, 2009: "Fans of World's Fastest Ocean Liner Put Out a Distress Call" published on WSJ Page One.

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