Man in Profile: Joseph Mitchell of the New Yorker, (Hardcover)

from NewsieQ

Joseph Mitchell was the father of New Journalism, before there was such a thing. He wrote stories about New York eccentrics that used the techniques of fiction to illuminate the facts of the story. He did copious research for each profile - there were often YEARS between his magazine articles. Th...

from LizzieD

This is a solid, fine, literary biography of the man from down the road from my hometown, who went to NYC as a young man and became the chronicler of Old New York even as it was disappearing in the 50's and 60's. Kunkel is so intrigued with Mitchell's choices in writing composites of characters a...

from kortge

One gets an picture of the New York of the early/mid 20th century when Mitchell wrote for The New Yorker and some of the odd-ball characters of the time.

from Stbalbach

Man in Profile is an excellent biography of Joseph Mitchell of The New Yorker. Thomas Kunkel wrote a biography of another New Yorker writer, Harold Ross, as well as other books about journalism. The idea of creative non-fiction and "new journalism" has become almost standard these days, but Mitch...

from NewsieQ

Joseph Mitchell was the father of New Journalism, before there was such a thing. He wrote stories about New York eccentrics that used the techniques of fiction to illuminate the facts of the story. He did copious research for each profile - there were often YEARS between his magazine articles. Th...