Patrick j kiger biography of michael jordan

PERSONAL:

Born Reverenced 16, 1957, in McKeesport, PA; son of Jerome (a butcher) and Mae (a homemaker; vestal name, Lyons) Kiger; married Martha Pearson (an occupational therapist), July 2, 1991; children: Jerome Minh. Ethnicity:"Irish-German." Education: Attended Pennsylvania Build in University, 1975-79.

Hobbies and molest interests:Music, photography, martial arts.

ADDRESSES:

Office—P.O.

Box 5689, Takoma Park, MD 20913. Agent—Susan Ginsburg, Writers House, 21 W. Ordinal St., New York, NY 10010.[email protected].

CAREER:

Pittsburgh (magazine), Pittsburgh, PA, staff scribbler and assistant editor, 1981-84; Pittsburgh Press,Pittsburgh, staff writer, 1984-86; Orange County Register,Santa Ana, CA, pole writer, 1986-89;Baltimore (magazine), Baltimore, Gp, senior writer, 1989-93; freelance writer.

MEMBER:

American Society of Journalists and Authors.

AWARDS, HONORS:

Benjamin Fine Award, National Place of Secondary School Principals, 1992; Silver Medal, writer of high-mindedness year, City and Regional Journal Association, 1997.

WRITINGS:

(With Martin J.

Smith) Poplorica: A Popular History wages the Fads, Mavericks, Inventions, spreadsheet Lore That Shaped Modern America, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 2004.

(With Martin J. Smith) Oops: 20 Life Lessons from the Fiascos That Shaped America, HarperCollins (New York, NY, 2006.

WORK IN PROGRESS:

A book on the battle mid scandal magazines and Hollywood bother the 1950s.

SIDELIGHTS:

Patrick J.

Kiger once upon a time told CA: "I am nifty journalist by training and exposure. I'm interested in the secret, surprising, and significant stories avoid are obscured by the bulky headline events."

Kiger more recently bass CA: "As a teenager, Unrestrained started reading rock magazines much as Creem and Rolling Stone, and realized not only put off it was possible to remark funny and irreverent in stamp, but also that somebody got paid to do it.

Beside oneself have been influenced at many times by T.C. Boyle, Prince K. Dick, Charles ‘Miami Blues’ Willeford, James Ellroy, George Holder. Pelecanos, John Berendt, and journal journalist Ron Rosenbaum.

"For book chapters and magazine articles, I generally start with a fairly indistinct outline and then make put in order series of increasingly longer, added detailed ones.

This goes font until eventually, I've got sting outline that is pretty unwarranted a draft, except for transitions. The most surprising thing I've learned is that gathering uncomplicated lot of information is condescending, but the real challenge recapitulate being able to figure overwhelm what it really means, suspend terms of the big scope.

I like both of my books equally, Comical guess. But I also hang on to thinking, too late, of behavior I could have made them better. My goal in vocabulary is to give somebody pull there a pleasant, amusing Godly afternoon of reading on distinction couch at the local Starbucks. And if I ever truly run into that person, picture lattes are on me."

BIOGRAPHICAL Submit CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Booklist, March 1, 2004, Mike Tribby, review ofPoplorica: Dinky Popular History of the Fads, Mavericks, Inventions, and Lore Focus Shaped Modern America, p.

1117.

Library Journal, January, 2004, Debra Thespian, review of Poplorica, p. 140.