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Joseph 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.
May 20, 2015 · As a cub reporter in New York in the 1930s, Joseph Mitchell once listened in on the questioning of a prostitute who had allegedly allowed her body to serve as the altar for a Black Mass. Asked...
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In 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 ...
Apr 3, 2015 · Joseph Mitchell, one of America's greatest nonfiction writers, is given an astounding biography in Thomas Kunkel's Man in Profile.
May 31, 2015 · Insight. Joseph Mitchell of the New Yorker: The man behind the myth. He was a legendary writer who spent decades roaming the streets of New York, documenting its scenes with a journalist’s...
Joseph Mitchell is Joseph Mitchell, who died in 1996, began writing for the magazine in 1933. on The New Yorker. Read Joseph Mitchell's bio and get latest news stories and articles.
Jun 24, 2015 · Thomas Kunkel’s biography covers Mr. Mitchell’s sparkling portraits of New York’s marginal people, as well as his breaking the rules of nonfiction and an epic case of writer’s block.
