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The world of Mike Royko / Doug Moe ; introduction by John Kass.
LIBRA PN4874.R744 M64 1999
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Moe, Doug.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Royko, Mike, 1932-1997.
- Royko, Mike.
- Journalism--Illinois--Chicago--History--20th century.
- Journalism.
- Journalists--United States--Biography.
- Journalists.
- History.
- United States.
- Illinois--Chicago.
- Chicago (Ill.)--Biography.
- Chicago (Ill.).
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 115 pages : illustrations ; 25 x 27 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, [1999]
- Summary:
- This abundantly illustrated biography is the first account of the colorful life of newspaperman Mike Royko, the Pulitzer prize-winning columnist who personified Chicago in all its roughedged charm, yet whose talent was appreciated by readers around the world.
- In columns for the Chicago Daily News, then the Chicago Sun-Times, and finally the Chicago Tribune, Royko's biting with was syndicated in more than 600 newspapers, and he was courted and feared by national political figures. He was even the inspiration for the John Belushi role in the film Continental Divide. But Royko's beginnings could not have been more humble. Raised in a flat above a tavern on Chicago's Polish Northwest Side, Royko--like the marvelous character he created in his columns, Slats Grobnik--was a streetsmart wiseguy, tending bar though barely a teen.
- Contents:
- "Flat-above-a-Tavern" Youth 3
- Glory Days at the Daily News 31
- Success and Sorrow at the Sun-Times 69
- Tower of the Tribune 93
- Honors and Awards 112.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (page 113).
- ISBN:
- 029916540X
- OCLC:
- 41466125
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