Neil Steinberg
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Neil Steinberg is a news columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times. He joined the staff in 1987, and his column appears four times a week.[1]
Steinberg has written for a wide variety of publications, including Sports Illustrated, The New York Times Sunday Magazine, Granta, Rolling Stone, Details, Men's Journal, National Lampoon and Spy. He has also written for many web sites, including Salon and Forbes.com.[2]
He is the author of six books: If at All Possible, Involve a Cow: The Book of College Pranks (St. Martin's: 1992); Complete and Utter Failure: A Celebration of Also-Rans, Runners-Up, Never-Weres and Total Flops (Doubleday: 1994); The Alphabet of Modern Annoyances (Doubleday: 1996); Don't Give Up the Ship: Finding My Father While Lost at Sea (Ballantine: 2002); and Hatless Jack (Plume: 2004) an examination of the decline of the men's hat industry, played out against the career of John F. Kennedy. His most recent book is a memoir of his struggle with alcoholism titled Drunkard (Dutton: 2008). [3] The New York Post called it "at once hysterically funny and cringe inducing."
[edit] Notes
- ^ "Neil Steinberg biography :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES". http://www.suntimes.com/news/steinberg/bio-steinberg.article. Retrieved on 2008-05-04.
- ^ "Neil Steinberg biography :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES". http://www.suntimes.com/news/steinberg/bio-steinberg.article. Retrieved on 2008-05-04.
- ^ "Interview: Sun-Times Columnist Neil Steinberg". http://chicagoist.com/2007/03/27/interview_suntimes_columnist_neil_steinberg.php."Interview: MentorCLE". http://www.mentorcle.com/courses/?courseID=1030. Retrieved on 2009-05-02.
