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PHOTO CREDITS
Therese Mitchell/Courtesy the Estate of Joseph Mitchell: fp1.1, 1.1, 4.1, 4.3, 5.1, 5.4, 6.2, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1, 11.1, 12.2, 13.1 and 15.6; Courtesy of Jack Mitchell: 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 3.1, 4.2, 14.4, and 17.1; Courtesy of Nora Mitchell Sanborn and Elizabeth Mitchell: 4.4, 5.2, and, 7.1, 14.1, and 14.5; University of Oregon/Jane Grant Collection: 6.1; Pach Bros./Bettmann Archive: 6.1; Bettmann/Corbis: 5.3 and 6.3; Culver Pictures: 6.4 and 12.1; Courtesy of David Crowley: 7.2; Courtesy of the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University (installation detail from the exhibition The Collector: Joseph Mitchell’s Quotidian Quest). Object images by Steve Featherstone and installation photo by Patrick Yan: 11.2; Blackstone Studios/Courtesy of Nora Mitchell Sanborn and Elizabeth Mitchell: 14.2; Hilde Hubbuck: 14.3; Sheila McGrath/Courtesy of Ashley Fraser: 16.1.
By THOMAS KUNKEL
MAN IN PROFILE: JOSEPH MITCHELL OF THE NEW YORKER
ENORMOUS PRAYERS: A JOURNEY INTO THE PRIESTHOOD
GENIUS IN DISGUISE: HAROLD ROSS OF THE NEW YORKER
LETTERS FROM THE EDITOR: THE NEW YORKER’S
HAROLD ROSS (EDITOR)
LEAVING READERS BEHIND: THE AGE OF CORPORATE NEWSPAPERING
(EDITOR, WITH GENE ROBERTS AND CHARLES LAYTON)
BREACH OF FAITH: A CRISIS OF COVERAGE IN THE AGE OF CORPORATE NEWSPAPERING
(EDITOR, WITH GENE ROBERTS)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
THOMAS KUNKEL is the author of Genius in Disguise: Harold Ross of The New Yorker, and he also edited a collection of Ross’s letters. He has written or edited four other books. He is president of St. Norbert College in De Pere, Wisconsin, and prior to that he served eight years as dean of the Philip Merrill College of Journalism and president of American Journalism Review at the University of Maryland. Before moving into higher education, he worked as a reporter and editor at several of the nation’s most respected newspapers. He and his wife, Debra, live in De Pere.