Curated category
American male journalists
- Frederick DouglassFrederick Augustus Washington Bailey was born into slavery on the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay in Talbot County, Maryland.
- Stephen CraneStephen Crane entered the world on the 1st of November 1871, in Newark, New Jersey. He was the fourteenth and final child born to Jonathan Townley Crane and…
- Kirk W. JohnsonKirk Wallace Johnson was born in West Chicago, Illinois. His father served as a Republican State Representative and Senator.
- Horace GreeleyHorace Greeley was born on the 3rd of February 1811 in Amherst, New Hampshire. He could not breathe for the first twenty minutes of his life.
- Mathew BradyMathew B. Brady was born between 1822 and 1824 in Warren County, New York, near Lake George. He was the youngest of three children to Irish immigrant parents…
- Peter BiskindPeter Biskind was born in 1940 and grew up to become a central figure in American film criticism. He attended Swarthmore College, where he began his academic…
- Nathaniel P. BanksNathaniel Prentice Banks was born at Waltham, Massachusetts, on the 30th of January 1816. His father worked in the textile mill of the Boston Manufacturing…
- Robert GreenfieldRobert Greenfield began his career writing about sports. He moved from that foundation to freelance work for Eye magazine and Cavalier.
- Francis Amasa WalkerFrancis Amasa Walker entered the world on the 2nd of July 1840, in a prominent family home in Boston. His father was Amasa Walker, an economist and…
- Roger LowensteinRoger Lowenstein entered the world in 1954 within the quiet streets of Larchmont, New York. His father Louis worked as an attorney and taught law at Columbia…
- James GleickIn 1987, Viking Penguin published Chaos: Making a New Science. This book introduced the concept of the butterfly effect to millions of readers who had never…