Literary Journalism A Biographical Dictionary of Writers and Editors

Subjects:

• Communications » Journalism
• Popular Culture » Popular Culture (General)

Reviews:

• Applegate profiles approximately 170 literary or 'new' journalists from the 18th century to the present. His introduction offers a succint explanation of literary journalism.....the important writers and editors are included here. Librarians, students (undergraduate and graduate), and faculty seeking fast facts and basic biographical information will be grateful to find this material under one cover.
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• In a short introductory essay, the editor, a professor of journalism, asserts that the literary journalist uses techniques of the novelist that sharply differ in form, style, and language from the objective reportage of a newspaper reporter. The bulk of the book contains alphabetically arranged profiles of such seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British writers as Joseph Addison and William Hazlitt, and American classic authors like Jack London and Mark Twain. The majority of entries feature contemporary writers ranging from David Halberstam to the founder of "new journalism," Tom Wolfe....Used as a ready reference source, this work will provide readers some useful information.
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Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Introduction
• The Dictionary
• Bibliography
• Index