Michael Sragow edited film essays for the journalist whose autobiographical novel won what posthumous award?
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Michael Sragow Michael Sragow (born June 26, 1952 in New York) is a film critic and columnist who has written for "The Orange County Register", "The Baltimore Sun", "The San Francisco Examiner", "The New Times", "The New Yorker" (where he worked with Pauline Kael), "The Atlantic" and "Salon". Sragow also edited James Agee's film essays (for the book "Agee on Film"), and has written or contributed to several other cinema-related books.
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James Agee James Rufus Agee ( ; November 27, 1909 – May 16, 1955) was an American novelist, journalist, poet, screenwriter and film critic. In the 1940s, he was one of the most influential film critics in the U.S. His autobiographical novel, "A Death in the Family" (1957), won the author a posthumous 1958 Pulitzer Prize.
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Jacki Lynn Moss Jacki Lynn Moss (born October 8, 1952) is an American writer, editor, and journalist. She is best known for her article "George Hitchings and Gertrude Elion: Nobel Laureates", penned while she was the Managing Editor of COPE and Coping Magazines, a healthcare publication directed at medical professionals specializing in oncology and a consumer magazine for people living with cancer. In 2016, Moss completed her first novel "With A Bullet", published by "The Wild Rose Press, Inc." Moss is also known for her 2002 book "Nashville: City in Harmony" and her 1995 book "We Have to Talk: The Guide to Bouncing Back From a Break-up".
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Wallace Terry Wallace Houston Terry, II (April 21, 1938 – May 29, 2003) was an African-American journalist and oral historian, best known for his book about black soldiers in Vietnam, "Bloods: An Oral History of the Vietnam War" (1984), which served as a basis for the 1995 crime thriller "Dead Presidents".
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Gonzague Saint Bris Gonzague Saint Bris (16 January 1948 – 8 August 2017) was an award-winning French novelist, biographer and journalist. He won the 2002 Prix Interallié for "Les Vieillards de Brighton". He was the founder of La Forêt des livres, an annual book festival, and the Cabourg Film Festival. With his family, he was a co-proprietor of Clos Lucé.
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Lillian Ross (journalist) Lillian Ross (June 8, 1918 – September 20, 2017) was an American journalist and author, who was a staff writer at "The New Yorker" for seven decades, beginning in 1945. Her novelistic reporting and writing style, shown in early stories about Ernest Hemingway and John Huston, are widely understood as a primary influence on what would later be called "literary journalism" or "new journalism."
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The Last Tycoon The Last Tycoon is an unfinished novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald. In 1941, it was published posthumously under this title, as prepared by his friend Edmund Wilson, a critic and writer.
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Michael Moss Michael Moss was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting in 2010, and was a finalist for the prize in 2006 and 1999. He is also the recipient of a Gerald Loeb Award and an Overseas Press Club citation. Before coming to "The New York Times", he was a reporter for "The Wall Street Journal", "New York Newsday", and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He has been an adjunct professor at the Columbia School of Journalism and currently lives in Brooklyn with his wife and two sons.
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Mike Gold Michael "Mike" Gold (April 12, 1894 – May 14, 1967) was the pen-name of Jewish American writer Itzok Isaac Granich. A lifelong communist, Gold was a novelist and literary critic. His semi-autobiographical novel "Jews Without Money" (1930) was a bestseller. During the 1930s and 1940s Gold was considered the preeminent author and editor of U.S. proletarian literature.
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Reisebriefe von Hermann Raster "Reisebriefe von Hermann Raster: mit einer Biographie und einem Bildniss des Verfassers" is a biography and collection of travel essays of the German American editor and politician, Hermann Raster published posthumously in 1891. The novel was accredited to its subject and the author of the essays, Hermann Raster, though the introduction and biographer remain unknown. The essays chronicle the life travels and experiences of Raster, who was a Forty-Eighter best known for being Editor-in-Chief of the Illinois Staats-Zeitung and Collector of Internal Revenue for the First Illinois District. He was a correspondent for several German newspapers in America and an ardent abolitionist before and during the American Civil War.
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A Hidden Life A Hidden Life is a memoir by the Dutch-American author Johanna Reiss. Reiss won the Newbery Honor for her account of her experiences as a child during the Holocaust, "The Upstairs Room", which was followed by a sequel "The Journey Back" (both published by HarperCollins).
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The Short-Timers The Short-Timers is a 1979 semi-autobiographical novel by U.S. Marine Corps veteran Gustav Hasford, about his experience in the Vietnam War. It was later adapted into the film "Full Metal Jacket" (1987) by Hasford, Michael Herr, and Stanley Kubrick. Hasford's novel "The Phantom Blooper" (1990) is a sequel to "The Short-Timers". The book was supposed to be the first of a trilogy, but Hasford died soon after completing its sequel and before writing the third installment.
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Susan Faludi Susan Charlotte Faludi (born April 18, 1959) is an American feminist journalist and author. She won a Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism in 1991, for a report on the leveraged buyout of Safeway Stores, Inc., a report that the Pulitzer Prize committee commended for depicting the "human costs of high finance". She was also awarded the Kirkus Prize in 2016 for "In the Darkroom".
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Frederik Obermaier Frederik Obermaier (born 1984) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist for the Munich-based newspaper, "Süddeutsche Zeitung", and book author.
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Gerhard Löwenthal Prize The Gerhard Löwenthal Prize (German: "Gerhard-Löwenthal-Preis" ) is an award for "free and conservative journalism" ("freiheitlich-konservativen Journalismus ") in Germany. Endowed by German "Foundation for Conservative Education and Research" ("Förderstiftung Konservative Bildung und Forschung" ), it is awarded in cooperation with national-conservative newspaper "Junge Freiheit" and Ingeborg Löwenthal, widow of conservative journalist and Holocaust survivor Gerhard Löwenthal. Issued annually between 2004 and 2009, it has since been awarded only biannually.
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The Last and the First The Last and the First is Ivy Compton-Burnett's posthumous novel, published in 1971, two years after her death. The work, complete if possibly awaiting revision, was untitled when it was discovered, and was so named as appropriate for her last novel, and also because of the Biblical quotation (Matthew 20:16) uttered (not for the first time in her canon) by one of the characters.
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The Tribal World of Verrier Elwin The Tribal World of Verrier Elwin is an autobiography of anthropologist Verrier Elwin published by Oxford University Press. The book was published posthumously in May 1964, three months after the death of Elwin. It was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1965.
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Cheryl B Cheryl Burke (September 19, 1972 – June 18, 2011), known professionally as Cheryl B, was an American journalist, spoken word poet, performance artist and playwright, associated with the East Village arts scene in New York City. She is best known for her autobiographical book "My Awesome Place: The Autobiography of Cheryl B", which was published posthumously and was co-winner, with John Irving's novel "In One Person", of the 2013 Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Literature.
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A Bag of Marbles A Bag of Marbles (French: "Un sac de billes" ) is a Second World War autobiographical novel by the French Jewish author Joseph Joffo. It tells the story of his flight, as a small boy, with his brother Maurice to escape from Nazi occupied France to the Zone Libre. Joffo was refused by many publishers before being encouraged by the newly founded publishing house Éditions Jean-Claude Lattès to get the help of an editor to polish the text. The book was a phenomenal best-seller, being made into a major film two years later.
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Seducing Ingrid Bergman Seducing Ingrid Bergman is a 2012 novel by Chris Greenhalgh. It dramatises the real-life affair between the actress Ingrid Bergman and the war photographer Robert Capa.
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Fates Worse Than Death Fates Worse than Death, subtitled "An Autobiographical Collage of the 1980s", is a 1991 collection of essays, speeches, and other previously uncollected writings by author Kurt Vonnegut Jr.. In the introduction to the book, Vonnegut acknowledges that the book is similar to an earlier book, "Palm Sunday". In it he discusses his attempted suicide.
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Chuck Palahniuk Charles Michael "Chuck" Palahniuk ( ) (born February 21, 1962) is an American novelist and freelance journalist, who describes his work as "transgressional" fiction. He is the author of the award-winning novel "Fight Club", which also was made into an acclaimed film of the same name.