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Bookmark or Share- Review: ‘Man in Profile’ Studies Joseph Mitchell of The New YorkerJoseph Mitchell at The New Yorker magazine in 1994. Wyatt Counts/Associated Press. By John Williams. June 24, 2015. Growing up in North Carolina, Joseph Mitchell was not easily bored. He...
- Joseph Mitchell (writer) - WikipediaJoseph Quincy Mitchell (July 27, 1908 – May 24, 1996) was an American writer best known for his works of creative nonfiction he published in The New Yorker. His work primarily consists of character studies, where he used detailed portraits of people and events to highlight the commonplace of the world, especially in and around New York City.
- The Master Writer of the City | Janet MalcolmIn 1942 The New Yorker published Joseph Mitchell’s profile of a homeless man in Greenwich Village named Joe Gould, whose claim to notice—the thing that separated him from other sad misfits—was “a formless, rather mysterious book” he was known to be writing called “An Oral History of Our Time,” begun twenty-six years earlier and already, at nine ...
- Joseph Mitchell, Chronicler of the Unsung and the Unconventional ...Joseph Mitchell, whose stories about ordinary people created extraordinary journalism in the pages of The New Yorker, died of cancer yesterday at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in...
- Joseph Mitchell’s Ear for New York | The New YorkerMitchell was New York’s first true biographer; he paired a reporter’s precision with a novelist’s sense of narrative to create a series of intricate and revelatory profiles of the city in The New...
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