David michaelis

PERSONAL:

Born October 3, 1957, pry open Boston, MA; son of Archangel (a consultant) and Diana Tead (a filmmaker) Michaelis. Education:Princeton Dogma, B.A., 1979. Politics: Democrat. Religion: Episcopalian.

ADDRESSES:

Home and office—New York, Party. Agent—Melanie Jackson Agency, 250 Westmost 57th St., Ste. 1119, Novel York, NY 10019.

CAREER:

Writer, 1977—. Advance auxiliary police officer, New Dynasty City Police Department, 1981-83.

MEMBER:

Princeton Baton (New York, NY), Chowderhead Society.

WRITINGS:

(With John Aristotle Phillips) Mushroom: Grandeur Story of the A-Bomb Kid, Morrow (New York, NY), 1978.

The Best of Friends: Profiles chastisement Extraordinary Friendships, Morrow, 1983.

Boy, Young lady, Boy, Girl, Bantam (New Dynasty, NY), 1989.

N.C. Wyeth, Knopf (New York, NY), 1998, Perennial (New York, NY), 2003.

(Author of essays with Tom Brokaw) One Nation: Patriots and Pirates Portrayed strong N.C. Wyeth and James Wyeth, Little, Brown and Company (Boston, MA), 2000.

Schulz and Peanuts: Skilful Biography, Harper (New York, NY), 2007.

Contributor of articles to periodicals, including American Heritage, Esquire, Reader's Digest, New York, and Life. Contributing editor to Paris Review and Manhattan, Inc.

SIDELIGHTS:

David Michaelis anticipation a writer and biographer. Blooper has written several nonfiction books, including Mushroom: The Story eradicate the A-Bomb Kid in 1978 and The Best of Friends: Profiles of Extraordinary Friendships throw in 1983. In 1989 Michaelis very published the book Boy, Miss, Boy, Girl. He widely contributes articles to periodicals, including American Heritage, Esquire, Reader's Digest, Unusual York, and Life. Michaelis very served as a contributing redactor to the Paris Review splendid Manhattan, Inc.

Michaelis once told CA: "Mushroom is a nonfiction tale about John Phillips, my freshman-year roommate at Princeton who, significance a junior, designed on paper a workable nuclear fission scheme for his junior-year physics qualifications. One must not make glory mistake that so many publications made when Phillip's project was brought to the public's attention: There was no actual bomb anywhere on the Princeton bookish, merely a paper whose paragraph were awarded an A+ tough the physics department.

"My second reference book, The Best of Friends, is a book of profiles about the importance of amity in the lives of xiv men: Donold B. Lourie abide George H. Love, chairmen be fond of the boards of Quaker Oats and Consolidation Coal, respectively; Isamu Noguchi, the sculptor, and Buckminster Fuller, the philosopher-inventor; Duncan Philosopher and George Cadwalader, transatlantic sailors; LeMoyne Billings, an advertising given that, and President John F. Kennedy; Dave Knowles and Rob President, alpine mountain climbers; U.S. Oceanic commanders Leonard F. Picotte leading Michael B. Edwards; and exile John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd. The book would never enjoy been written without the certain friendship, encouragement, and editorial art of my best friend, A-ok. Scott Berg, author of Max Perkins: Editor of Genius. Adventurer not only served as position unofficial editor of the copy, but also as the directional force and main inspiration hint at the book itself."

Michaelis published potentate first biography, N.C. Wyeth, footpath 1998. Relating to the accepted Wyeth family of artists, that book "is the first history of the patriarch of prowl family," according to Adam Gopnik in the New York Generation Book Review. Steven Henry Madoff, reviewing the book in Time magazine, observed that "Michaelis captures Wyeth and his times vividly," calling the biography both "meticulous" and "satisfying." Booklist contributor Karenic Simonetti was more critical, mission the biography "a fascinating continuance story but one likely get through to disappoint those interested mainly mass the artist's work." Best important for his classic illustrations spick and span such children's books as Treasure Island, Robinson Crusoe, and Robin Hood, Wyeth led a usually placid life marked only via the strange and unexpectedly furious nature of his 1945 inattentive in a car accident. "Integrating Wyeth's complex personal and emotional life with his artistic oeuvre," Martin R. Kalfatovic noted detect Library Journal, "Michaelis creates uncluttered portrait of both the creator and the man." Gopnik terminated that "Michaelis has assembled brainchild excellent account … well impossible to get into, conscientious and, on the integral, enthralling."

In 2007, Michaelis published Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography. Distinction account is the result clean and tidy six years of research interview the cooperation of the Cartoonist family in providing resources disappointment the legendary comic strip writer's life. The biography covers Physicist Schulz's attitudes toward his greatly successful "Peanuts" comic strip, bring in well as his views irritant children and life. Michaelis suggestion at the connections between Cartoonist and his most famous comical character, Charlie Brown, and do something draws similarities between the depiction character's interaction with schoolmates view dismal performance at sports dowel Schulz's experiences as a child.

Charles McGrath, reviewing the book impossible to tell apart the New York Times Paperback Review, commented that "Michaelis, who had the cooperation of honourableness Schulz family, tells this draw brightly and engagingly, if arrange always succinctly and without recapitulation. There is rather less by one might expect about blue blood the gentry rich tradition of newspaper comics that spawned Schulz, and improved than some readers might first-class about, for example, the lex scripta \'statute law\' of metastasis in cervical somebody (the disease that killed Schulz's mother). Throughout the book Michaelis maintains affection for his topic without losing sight of at any rate exasperating and narcissistic he could be." McGrath pointed out dump "the smartest thing he has done is to pepper fulfil pages with actual strips yield ‘Peanuts,’ dozens of them, as a rule without comment or footnote rout even date: an appropriate nakedness just turns up in grandeur middle of a paragraph wander happens to be talking underrate something similar." A critic penmanship in Kirkus Reviews remarked drift "Michaelis offers considerable insight bash into the semiotics of comics enjoin the psyche of a owner of the craft," adding saunter Schulz and Peanuts is "all that's needed about a brainbox of American cultural history." Extract an article in Time periodical, Richard Lacayo and Lev Grossman described the book as "an extraordinary achievement: sympathetic and liberal and rigorously knowledgeable."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND Carping SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Atlantic Monthly, November 1, 1998, Phoebe-Lou Adams, review of N.C. Wyeth, p. 137.

Biblio, December 1, 1998, review of N.C. Wyeth, p. 67.

Biography, January 1, 2008, review of Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography, p. 201.

Booklist, Sep 1, 1989, review of Boy, Girl, Boy, Girl, p. 36; October 15, 1998, Karen Simonetti, review of N.C. Wyeth, possessor. 385; August 1, 2007, Gordon Flagg, review of Schulz put up with Peanuts, p. 6.

Bookmarks, January-February, 2008, review of Schulz and Peanuts, p. 56.

Choice, February, 1999, W.L. Whitwell, review of N.C. Wyeth, p. 1052.

Christian Science Monitor, Oct 16, 2007, Michael Taube, argument of Schulz and Peanuts, holder. 13.

Economist, November 3, 2007, discussion of Schulz and Peanuts, owner. 101.

Editor & Publisher, December 28, 2007, "Schulz Biography Makes trim Top-10 List in ‘New Royalty Times.’"

Globe and Mail (Toronto, Lake, Canada), November 10, 2007, Jeet Heer, review of Schulz countryside Peanuts, p. D10.

Journal of English History, December, 1999, Jeanette Pot-pourri. Toohey, review of N.C. Wyeth, p. 1363.

Kirkus Reviews, August 1, 1998, review of N.C. Wyeth, p. 1093; August 15, 2007, review of Schulz and Peanuts.

Library Journal, June 1, 1983, The Best of Friends: Profiles make stronger Extraordinary Friendships, p. 1132; Oct 15, 1998, Martin R. Kalfatovic, review of N.C. Wyeth, proprietor. 64; October 1, 2007, Identification Alan Williams, review of Schulz and Peanuts, p. 71.

Los Angeles Times, May 29, 1983, The Best of Friends, p. 8; April 7, 1985, Ernest Callenbach, review of The Best recall Friends, p. 7.

Maclean's, October 22, 2007, Brian Bethune, "The Public servant Who Recalled Everything: Every Minor and Bitter Memory in Physicist Schulz's Long Life Made Neat Way into ‘Peanuts’," p. 61.

New Statesman, March 15, 1991, discussion of Boy, Girl, Boy, Girl, p. 34.

New Yorker, September 28, 1998, review of N.C. Wyeth, p. 101.

New York Times Soft-cover Review, January 7, 1991, Dulcie Leimbach, review of Boy, Juvenile, Boy, Girl, p. 18; Nov 15, 1998, Adam Gopnik, study of N.C. Wyeth, p. 15; December 6, 1998, review carryon N.C. Wyeth, p. 86; Oct 14, 2007, Charles McGrath, examination of Schulz and Peanuts.

Publishers Weekly, September 1, 1989, review promote to Boy, Girl, Boy, Girl, proprietor. 79; August 3, 1998, survey of N.C. Wyeth, p. 61; July 23, 2007, review do paperwork Schulz and Peanuts, p. 53.

School Library Journal, December, 1998, debate of N.C. Wyeth, p. 37.

Time, June 6, 1983, Patricia Poet, The Best of Friends, holder. 75; September 21, 1998, Steven Henry Madoff, review of N.C. Wyeth, p. 116; September 3, 2007, Richard Lacayo and Lev Grossman, "Strip Mind," p. 62.

Times Literary Supplement, February 8, 1991, review of Boy, Girl, Young man, Girl, p. 11.

Tribune Books (Chicago, IL), March 23, 2003, debate of N.C. Wyeth, p. 6; November 3, 2007, Art Settler, review of Schulz and Peanuts, p. 6.

Virginia Quarterly Review, fount, 1999, review of N.C. Wyeth, p. 57.

Washington Post Book World, July 10, 1983, Christopher Schemering, review of The Best star as Friends, p. 6; February 2, 2003, review of N.C. Wyeth, p. 11.

Wilson Quarterly, January 1, 1999, A.J. Hewat, review magnetize N.C. Wyeth, p. 96.

ONLINE

Mr. Media, (November 4, 2007), Bob Andelman, author interview.

Schulz and Peanuts Spider's web site, (July 17, 2008), originator profile.