Writers
Who is Gay Talese?
The drugged-out Merry Pranksters appeared in his story.
Who is Tom Wolfe?
Skull, bones, and naked students.
Who is Ron Rosenbaum?
He had his photo taken, too.
Who is Ron Rosenbaum?
He wrote about the aftermath of the big bomb.
Who was John Hersey?
He coined the term "new journalism" to distinguish his work from then contemporary forms of journalism of his time - the early 20th century.
Who was W.T. Stead?
He went undercover in his pursuit of poverty for his "Experiment in Misery."
Who was Stephen Crane?
JFK's burial told laterally.
Who was Jimmy Breslin?
She wrote that: “Georgia O’Keefe is neither ‘crusty’ nor eccentric. She is simply hard, a straight shooter, a woman clean of received wisdom and open to what she sees.”
Who is Joan Didion?
Some have called him the greatest sports feature writer of all time.
Who is Gary Smith?
His ashes were scattered by being shot from a cannon?
Who was Hunter S. Thompson?
He went undercover into the deepest, darkest realms of East London.
Who was Jack London?
She admires the writer Doris Lessing’s “tendency to confront all ideas tabula rasa.”
Who is Joan Didion?
A key phrase in his essay "Regulars Get No Glory" was “a unit in the interesting sum of men slain.”
Who was Stephen Crane?
He took on the "vampire squid" Goldman Sachs in story that was read and discussed in the halls of Congress.
Who is Matt Taibbi?
He went undercover in a London flop house to write about the travails of the city's homeless.
Who was George Orwell?
He wrote a book about men riding hogs and another about men riding race horses.
Who was Hunter S. Thompson?
He described the need for a writer to find the "expressive individual" or "expressive personality."
Who was Hutchins Hapgood.
He immersed himself in the life of Samuel Johnson.
Who was James Boswell?
She became a slave in the Bronx.
Who was Marvel Cooke?
He went undercover in Harlem.
Who was Lawrence Otis Graham?
He died his skin black and traveled the segregated South and then wrote a best-seller about his experiences.
Who was John Howard Griffin?
He wrote that Montaigne “was, in the truest sense, a man of original mind, that is, he had the power of looking at things for himself, or as they really were, instead of blindly trusting to, and fondly repeating what others told him that they were.”
Who was William Hazlitt?
Given that words were inadequate to his task, he wrote several pages about a pair of overalls.
Who was James Agee?