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Shnayerson's fifth book was a collaborative biography of singer, actor and civil rights activist Harry Belafonte, titled My Song in 2011. In 2016, he wrote The Contender , an unauthorized biography of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo , [ 5 ] while his seventh book, BOOM: Mad Money, Mega Dealers, and the Rise of Contemporary Art was released in 2019.
Family Pictures is a 1993 American made-for-television drama film based on the novel of the same name by Sue Miller. It was directed by Philip Saville and stars Anjelica Huston , Sam Neill , Kyra Sedgwick , and Dermot Mulroney .
Michael Shnayerson, 1972, contributing editor, Vanity Fair [46] Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr., 1969, former publisher, The New York Times [47] Anthony Shorris, 1974, first deputy mayor of New York City [48] Sam Sifton, 1984, food critic [49] Robert F. X. Sillerman, 1966, media entrepreneur [50] Vivek Tiwary, 1991, writer and theater producer [51]
Junger was born in Belmont, Massachusetts, the son of Ellen Sinclair, a painter, and Miguel Chapero Junger, a physicist. [5] [6] Born in Dresden, Germany, and of Russian, Austrian, Spanish, Italian, and Jewish descent, his father immigrated to the United States during World War II to escape persecution because of paternal Jewish ancestry, and to study engineering at MIT.
Coal River: How a Few Brave Americans Took on a Powerful Company–and the Federal Government–to Save the Land They Love is a 2008 book by Michael Shnayerson.. Coal River is a work of investigative journalism which describes an environmental controversy in southern West Virginia, where coal companies are using mountaintop removal mining.
Baron grew up in a Jewish family [4] in Asbury Park, New Jersey, one of two children of Morton Baron, an engineer, and his wife Marian. [5] Baron invested $1,000, saved from shoveling snow, waiting tables, working as a life guard, and selling ice cream, and turned it into $4,000 by investing in stocks, prompting cohorts to call him "Count", a nickname which still sticks. [5]
Irwin Shaw (February 27, 1913 – May 16, 1984) was an American playwright, screenwriter, novelist, and short-story author whose written works have sold more than 14 million copies.
In the Kingdom of Coal: An American Family and the Rock That Changed the World (2003), owners' perspective; Shnayerson, Michael. Coal River: How a Few Brave Americans Took on a Powerful Company–and the Federal Government–to Save the Land They Love (2008) Schurr, Sam H., and Bruce C. Netschert.