Journalist Coppola delves inside right-wing extremist groups and discovers the motivations behind their actions.
Vince Coppola's journalistic career spans more than 25 years; he spent ten of those years at Newsweek. Coppola was lead reporter in Newsweek's early coverage of the AIDS epidemic, the destruction of the Space Shuttle Challenger, the Atlanta child murders.
Coppola has written three non-fiction books, "The Sicilian Judge, Uneasy Warriors/The Perilous Journey of the Green Berets and Dragons of God/A Journey Through Far-Right America. Dragons documents the rise of neo-Nazis and other domestic terrorist groups that culminated in Timothy McVeigh's attack on the Alfred P. Murrah federal building in Oklahoma City.
He is an award-winning writer who has written feature stories for magazines including Tina Brown's Talk, Esquire, Rolling Stone, Men's Journal, Worth, Atlanta.
In 2007, Coppola was selected by former U.S. Attorney General Griffin B. Bell to write The Sicilian Judge, a biography of one of Bell's heroes: U.S. District Judge Anthony A. Alaimo. Alaimo, who immigrated to the United States as a child, served in World War II as a bomber pilot, was shot down, imprisoned for two years in the infamous German POW camp, Stalag Luft III. He took part in the Great Escape and later escaped the Nazis on his own. Decades later, he oversaw the clean-up of the cruel and inhuman conditions in Georgia's state prison.
In 2007, Coppola co-wrote A Purpose Under Heaven, an Information Age allegory that casts truths about a world where we no longer know our neighbors, where families split apart, where predators roam the Internet, in a form readily accessible to readers.
In 2006, he co-wrote Grandfathered In with Dr. Stan Winokur, Atlanta's first board-certified oncologist. Though intended as a personal memoir, Grandfathered-In, is now part of the curriculum for first year medical students arriving at Wayne State University
In 2003, Coppola wrote Risk Revolution with CEO Derek Smith. Risk Revolution is a road map for risk reduction and prudent policy-making in the Information Age.
Coppola's personal memoir of his mother's battle against cancer was awarded a William Allen White Gold Medal for service to readers by the University of Kansas.
He is an honors graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism,
He has two children, Gabrielle, a Brown University graduate who is a business reporter for Bloomberg News and Thomas, a pre-med student at Hamilton College. He lives in Atlanta.
