The longtime journalist’s book focuses on the lives of Rita and Tyson, two homeless people in the Tenderloin whom he encounters in his reporting.

Fagan recently retired from The Chronicle after 20-plus years, covering everything from prison executions to the Columbine shootings and the Occupy movement. But “Shame of the City,” his award-winning ...

Before Kevin Fagan was an award-winning reporter who immersed himself in the brutal and heartbreaking world of San Francisco’s most chronically homeless individuals, he was just a young kid who knew ...