Herbert Mitgang (1920–2013)
Auteur de Dangerous dossiers : exposing the secret war against America's greatest authors
A propos de l'auteur
Herbert Mitgang was born in Manhattan, New York on January 20, 1920. He graduated from St. John's University and its law school and was admitted to the bar. While still in college, he was a sports stringer for The Brooklyn Eagle. During World War II, he served as an Army intelligence officer and afficher plus journalist. He joined The New York Times after the war and retired in 1994. At The Times, he wrote about numerous subjects including theater, foreign affairs and the law. He was editor of the Sunday Drama section from 1955 to 1963 and helped create the Op-Ed page, introduced in 1970. For three years in the mid-1960s, he was the assistant to Fred W. Friendly, the president of CBS News. He helped organize coverage of the Vietnam War and produced news programs including Vietnam Perspectives, which introduced voices opposed to the war. During his lifetime, he wrote or edited 15 fiction and nonfiction books including The Montauk Fault, Dangerous Dossiers: Exposing the Secret War against America's Greatest Authors, Once Upon a Time in New York, and Newsmen in Khaki: Tales of a World War II Soldier-Correspondent. He also wrote two plays: Mr. Lincoln and Adlai Alone. He died from complications of pneumonia on November 21, 2013 at the age of 93. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
Œuvres de Herbert Mitgang
Dangerous dossiers : exposing the secret war against America's greatest authors (1988) 80 exemplaires
Once Upon a Time in New York: Jimmy Walker, Franklin Roosevelt, and the Last Great Battle of the Jazz Age (2000) 76 exemplaires
Working for the Reader: Culture, Literature, War and Politics in Books from the 1950's to the Present (1970) 2 exemplaires
James A. Michener, First Citizen of the Republic of Letters: A Tribute By His Writing Colleagues (1990) 1 exemplaire
AMERICA AT RANDOM 1 exemplaire
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Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1920-01-20
- Date de décès
- 2013-11-21
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Manhattan, New York, USA
- Lieu du décès
- Manhattan, New York, USA
- Études
- St. John's University
- Professions
- journalist
biographer
editor
lawyer
non-fiction author
book reviewer - Organisations
- The New York Times
United States Army (WWII)
Membres
Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 19
- Aussi par
- 3
- Membres
- 291
- Popularité
- #80,411
- Évaluation
- 3.6
- ISBN
- 39
- Langues
- 2