Dan Fesperman

Baltimore is continuing its drive to end chronic homelessness with a new initiative aimed at finding permanent homes for the city's 75 most vulnerable homeless people. We talk about it with Olivia Farrow, director of the Mayor's Office of Human Services and Gabby Knighton, outreach coordinator in the city's Homeless Services Program.

Dan Fesperman joins me in the studio. He’s a former journalist and an award-winning author who lives in Baltimore. After serving as a foreign correspondent and reporter for The Baltimore Sun for many years, he now writes espionage thrillers.

November 16th & 17th, 2012, on The Signal:  

We visit a nearly forgotten cemetery on the grounds of the now-shuttered Crownsville State Hospital, where patients buried their own.  Historian Janice Hayes-Williams walks us through the gravesite, and tells the story of the institution originally named, ‘The Hospital for the Negro Insane.’  We also talk with Paul Lurz, who worked inside Crownsville for 40 years.

Dan Fesperman talks about his latest book, “The Double Game.” The book has been called a “love letter to the spy novel genre.”