Ebook: Man in Profile: Joseph Mitchell of the New Yorker
Author: Kunkel Thomas, Mitchell Joseph
- Tags: Authors American, Författare, Journalister, Journalists, Journalists--United States, Biography, Biografi, Biographies, Mitchell Joseph -- 1908-1996, New Yorker (New York N.Y. : 1925), Authors American -- Biography, Journalists -- United States -- Biography, Förenta staterns, United States, Författare
- Year: 2015
- Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
- City: Förenta staterns;United States
- Language: English
- epub
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY • This fascinating biography reveals the untold story of the legendary New Yorker profile writer—author of Joe Gould's Secret and Up in the Old Hotel—and unravels the mystery behind one of literary history's greatest disappearing acts.
Born and raised in North Carolina, Joseph Mitchell was Southern to the core. But from the 1930s to the 1960s, he was the voice of New York City. Readers of The New Yorker cherished his intimate sketches of the people who made the city tick—from Mohawk steelworkers to Staten Island oystermen, from homeless intellectual Joe Gould to Old John McSorley, founder of the city's most famous saloon. Mitchell's literary sensibility combined with a journalistic eye for detail produced a writing style that would inspire New Journalism luminaries such as Gay Talese, Tom Wolfe, and Joan Didion....
Born and raised in North Carolina, Joseph Mitchell was Southern to the core. But from the 1930s to the 1960s, he was the voice of New York City. Readers of The New Yorker cherished his intimate sketches of the people who made the city tick—from Mohawk steelworkers to Staten Island oystermen, from homeless intellectual Joe Gould to Old John McSorley, founder of the city's most famous saloon. Mitchell's literary sensibility combined with a journalistic eye for detail produced a writing style that would inspire New Journalism luminaries such as Gay Talese, Tom Wolfe, and Joan Didion....
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