'The Wood,' a play based on his life written by Dan Klores, opened at Manhattan's Rattlesnake Playwrights Theatre in August, 2011.
McAlary won a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting of New York City's Abner Louima police-assault scandal in 1997. He would die a year later of colon cancer at age 41, after having earlier survived a car crash and coma and his own scandal of journalism ethics.