The Journalist as Autobiographer

by Howard Good

More than novels, plays, or poems, what journalists have written between assignments have been their autobiographies. The autobiographical impulse has seized police reporters, foreign correspondents, sportswriters, city editors, television news anchors--virtually every species of journalist that has ever existed. This book examines why journalists have been so drawn to the autobiographical form and what sorts of identities they have carved out for...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810826844
• ISBN13: 9780810826847
• Release Date: June 1993
• Publisher: Scarecrow Press
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.5" x 8.9"