Curated playlist
American male journalists
- Hugh HefnerIn 1992, Hugh Hefner paid $75,000 for a burial crypt in Los Angeles, and the neighbor he wanted was Marilyn Monroe. He never met her. In 2009 he told the Los Angeles Times, "Spending eternity next to Marilyn is an opportunity too sweet to…
- Benjamin FranklinIn 1728, a 22-year-old printer named Benjamin Franklin sat down and wrote his own epitaph. He pictured his body as the cover of an old book, its contents torn out and its lettering and gilding stripped away. It would lie in the earth as…
- Frederick DouglassFrederick Douglass never knew his birthday, so he picked February 14. His mother had called him her Little Valentine.
- Kirk W. JohnsonKirk W. Johnson skipped his own high school graduation to fly to Cairo. He went to study Arabic.
- Horace GreeleyHorace Greeley could not breathe for the first twenty minutes of his life. He later founded the New-York Tribune.
- Peter BiskindPeter Biskind's own named source denied the Todd Haynes story he printed. Roger Ebert denied it too.
- Nathaniel P. BanksA former mill bobbin boy became Speaker of the U.S. House. Nathaniel P. Banks won on the 133rd ballot in 1856.
- Robert GreenfieldIn 1971, a 25-year-old reporter sat down with Keith Richards at a French Riviera villa.
- Roger LowensteinA financial journalist won a Lincoln prize for a book on paying for the Civil War. Roger Lowenstein won it in 2022.
- James GleickJames Gleick helped inspire Ian Malcolm, a character in Jurassic Park.