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Joseph Mitchell

1908–1996

Also known as Mitchell, Joseph, Joseph Quincy Mitchell, JOSEPH MITCHELL

11 works

1938–2017 across 5 dated works

Joseph Quincy Mitchell (July 27, 1908 – May 24, 1996) was an American writer best known for his works of creative nonfiction he published in The New Yorker. His work primarily consists of character studies, where he used detailed portraits of people and events to highlight the commonplace of the world, especially in and around New York City. His book Up in the Old Hotel collects the best of his writing for The New Yorker. His last book was his empathetic account of the Greenwich Village street character and self-proclaimed historian Joe Gould, published as Joe Gould's Secret (1964).

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My ears are bent1938
McSorley's wonderful saloon1943
With Bernard Hoepffner
Old Mr. Flood1948
Up in the old hotel and other stories1992

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Joe Gould's secret
Recorded as 1999; date may be inaccurate
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McSorley's wonderful saloon1943
With Bernard Hoepffner
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The bottom of the harbor
With Álex Gibert
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Up in the old hotel and other stories1992
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My ears are bent1938
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Old Mr. Flood1948
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Man-With Variations: Interviews with Franz Boas and Colleagues 19372017
With Robert Brightman
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mc sorley's wonderful saloon1944
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old mr. flood1948
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A subtreasury of American humor1941
With E. B. White, Katharine Sergeant Angell White, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Leonard Q. Ross, Frank R. Stockton, Anita Loos, Sinclair Lewis, John Mosher, Edward Streeter, Dorothy Parker, Arthur Kober, Heywood Broun, Mark Twain, Ring Lardner, James Thurber, George Ade, Don Marquis, Ambrose Bierce, Frank Moore Colby, McKelway, St. Clair, Frederick Swartwout Cozzens, Charles Heber Clark, Francis Steegmuller, James T. Fields, Cornelia Otis Skinner, Moffat, Donald W., Washington Irving, Orpheus C. Kerr, James Russell Lowell, V. Petroleum Nasby, Finley Peter Dunne, James M. Cain, Frank Sullivan, Eugene Field, Robert C. Benchley, Donald Ogden Stewart, Franklin P. Adams, Wolcott Gibbs, Corey Ford, Nunnally Johnson, Bret Harte, S. J. Perelman, Lucretia P. Hale, Sally Benson, Booth Tarkington, Ogden Nash, Clifford Orr, Artemus Ward (Charles Farrar Browne), Benjamin Franklin, H. L. Mencken, Clarence Day, Kenneth Fearing, E. E. Cummings, Russell Maloney, Geoffrey Hellman, Marc Connelly, Joel Chandler Harris, M, Glen Rounds, A. J. Liebling, George W. Harris, Alfred Henry Lewis, Roark Bradford, Frances Warfield, Morris Bishop, Nathaniel Parker Willis, Billings, Josh, Oliver Herford, Will Cuppy, Alexander Woolcott, Clifton Fadiman, Edgar Allan Poe, Persis Greely Anderson, Phyllis McGinley, Nathan, George Jean, Alva Johnston, Sanderson Vanderbilt, E. J. Kahn Jr., John McNulty, Angela Cypher, H. C. Bunner, Louis Untermeyer, Irwin Edman, Stephen Vincent Benét, Carolyn Wells, Samuel Hoffenstein, David McCord, Arthur Guiterman, Bert Leston Taylor, Clarence Hollister Knapp, Kenneth Allan Robinson, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Richard Lockridge, Lee Strout White, Ruth Ann McKinney, William Saroyan, Ludwig Bemelmans
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Short stories from the New Yorker.1940
With Irwin Shaw, John O'Hara, James Thurber, Robert M. Coates, E. B. White, Russell Maloney, Kay Boyle, Sherwood Anderson, Leonard Q. Ross, Oliver La Farge, Erskine Caldwell, Nancy Hale, Benedict Thielen, Wolcott Gibbs, William Maxwell, Tom Wolfe, Nathan Asch, Louise Bogan, Janet Flanner, McKelway, St. Clair, Leane Zugsmith, John Collier, Walter Bernstein, Morley Callaghan, Jerome Weidman, Thyra Samter Winslow, Christopher La Farge, Joel Sayre, Sally Benson, Edwin Corle, Emily Hahn, William A. Krauss, John Mosher, Angelica Gibbs, James Reid Parker, Mollie Panter-Downes, Brendan Gill, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Albert Maltz, Dawn Powell, Mark Schorer, Paul Horgan, Christopher Isherwood, Arthur Kober, George Milburn, Marc Connelly, Donald Moffitt, R. H. Newman, John Cheever, Richard Lockridge, Daniel Fuchs, Tess Slesinger, Dorothy Thomas
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