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Item Information       Summary     More Content     More by this author     Kunkel, Thomas, 1955-     Subjects     Mitchell, Joseph, 1908-1996.     New Yorker (New York, N.Y. : 1925)     Authors, American -- Biography.     Journalists -- United States -- Biography.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Kunkel, Thomas, 1955-       by title:      Man in profile [elec...         MARC Display

Man in profile [electronic resource] : Joseph Mitchell of the New Yorker / Thomas Kunkel. by Kunkel, Thomas, 1955- New York : Random House, 2015. Subjects Mitchell, Joseph, 1908-1996.   New Yorker (New York, N.Y. : 1925)   Authors, American -- Biography.   Journalists -- United States -- Biography. Electronic Resource http://hawaii.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=7F484E92-CE8C-4409-98A8-1701D3C96C33 This title is available online; click here to access Electronic Resource http://images.contentreserve.com/ImageType-100/0111-1/{7F484E92-CE8C-4409-98A8-1701D3C96C33}Img100.jpg ISBN:  9780812997521 (electronic bk.) 0812997522 (electronic bk.) Description:  1 online resource. Requests:  0 Summary:  "Joseph Mitchell of The New Yorker was one of the greatest nonfiction writers in American letters. His long-form profiles of the everyday people and places at the margins of the city he loved--high-rise construction workers, Staten Island oystermen, Bowery bums--pioneered a new kind of reportage. In the Thirties, Forties, Fifties, and early Sixties he wrote about some of the most quirky and memorable characters ever captured on the page, culminating in 1964 with his extraordinary story "Joe Gould's Secret." And then . . . nothing. For the next thirty years Mitchell came to the office and seemed to be busy with writing projects, but he never published another word. In time he would become less known for his classic stories and elegant writing than for the longest writer's block this side of J.D. Salinger. Fifty years after his last story appeared, and almost two decades after his death, Mitchell still has legions of fans, and his story--especially the mystery of his thirty-year writer's block--continues to fascinate"--   Copy/Holding information No Item Information

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