Roy Blount, Jr.
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Om författaren
Roy Blount, Jr., has written for the Atlantic Monthly since 1981.
Foto taget av: Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
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Verk av Roy Blount, Jr.
Hail, Hail, Euphoria!: Presenting the Marx Brothers in Duck Soup, the Greatest War Movie Ever Made (2010) 88 exemplar
About Three Bricks Shy of a Load: A Highly Irregular Lowdown on the Year the Pittsburgh Steelers Were Super but Missed… (1974) 54 exemplar
About Three Bricks Shy... And the Load Filled Up: The Story of the Greatest Football Team Ever (1974) 37 exemplar
Elvis: All Shook Up: Stories and Insights from Family Members, Journalists, and Those Who Were There (2012) 7 exemplar
Dispatches Volume One: What Men Don’t Tell Women; One Fell Soup; and Camels Are Easy, Comedy’s Hard (2018) 3 exemplar
What Men Don?t Tell Women 1 exemplar
Spoofing the Graphic 1 exemplar
Webster's Ark 1 exemplar
Associerade verk
Fierce Pajamas: An Anthology of Humor Writing from The New Yorker (2001) — Bidragsgivare — 709 exemplar
For the Love of Books: 115 Celebrated Writers on the Books They Love Most (1999) — Bidragsgivare — 452 exemplar
The 50 Funniest American Writers: An Anthology of Humor from Mark Twain to The Onion (2011) — Bidragsgivare — 245 exemplar
Know the Past, Find the Future: The New York Public Library at 100 (2011) — Bidragsgivare — 116 exemplar
The Sophisticated Cat: A Gathering of Stories, Poems, and Miscellaneous Writings About Cats (1992) — Bidragsgivare — 99 exemplar
Who's Writing This? Notations on the Authorial I, with Self-Portraits {not Antæus} (1995) — Bidragsgivare — 72 exemplar
Mid-life Confidential: The Rock Bottom Remainders Tour America with Three Chords and an Attitude (1994) — Bidragsgivare — 66 exemplar
Best of The Oxford American: Ten Years from the Southern Magazine of Good Writing {anthology} (2002) — Bidragsgivare — 43 exemplar
Sports Guy: In Search of Corkball, Warroad Hockey, Hooters Golf, Tiger Woods, and the Big, Big Game (2000) — Förord — 17 exemplar
Antaeus No. 64/65, Spring/Autumn 1990 - Twentieth Anniversary Issue (1990) — Bidragsgivare — 12 exemplar
Renegades: My Wild Trip from Professor to New Journalist with Outrageous Visits from Clint Eastwood, Reggie Jackson,… (2012) — Inledning — 8 exemplar
Antaeus No. 73/74, Spring 1994 - Who’s Writing This: Notations on the Authorial I {magazine} (1994) — Bidragsgivare — 5 exemplar
Sports Illustrated | September 5, 1994 (NFL '94 Preview: In the Line of Fire) (1994) — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
Oxford American: The Southern Magazine of Good Writing. No. 57 (2007): Best of the South (2007) — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
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- Vedertaget namn
- Blount, Roy, Jr.
- Födelsedag
- 1941-10-04
- Kön
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Födelseort
- Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
- Bostadsorter
- Decatur, Georgia, USA
- Utbildning
- Harvard University (M.A., 1964)
Vanderbilt University (B.A., 1963) - Yrken
- humorist
journalist
actor
musician - Organisationer
- Rock Bottom Remainders (band)
Fellowship of Southern Writers
Authors Guild (president)
National Public Radio (Wait, Wait. . . Don't Tell Me) - Priser och utmärkelser
- Thomas Wolfe Award (2009)
Phi Beta Kappa - Kort biografi
- Roy Blount, Jr. says on his web site: Born to Southern parents in Indianapolis. Grew up in Decatur, Georgia. U.S. Army 1964-66. Reporter and columnist for Atlanta Journal and part-time English instructor at Georgia State College, 1966-68. Free-lance since leaving SI in 1975. Husband of painter Joan Griswold, father of social worker daughter Ennis and director-writer-actor-songwriter son Kirven (with whom he wrote and appeared in a five-minute film on extreme sports for ESPN), grandfather of of Jesse, Noah and Elsie. No pets at present, but previously dogs, cats, horse, rooster, snake, turtle, hamster, monitor lizard, parakeet and hens.
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Statistik
- Verk
- 35
- Även av
- 33
- Medlemmar
- 2,491
- Popularitet
- #10,298
- Betyg
- 3.5
- Recensioner
- 55
- ISBN
- 107
- Språk
- 2
- Favoritmärkt
- 3