Glenn Frankel

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Glenn Frankel
Education
National Jewish Book Award (1995)
Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting
(1989)

Glenn Frankel is an American author and academic, journalist and winner of the 1989

Motion Picture Academy Film Scholar.[4] He was named a 2021-2 research fellow of the Leon Levy Center for Biography at the City University of New York for a book about Beatles manager Brian Epstein.[5]

Background

Frankel was born in the Bronx, N.Y., on Oct. 2, 1949, grew up in Rochester, N.Y., and graduated from

UT Austin and director of the School of Journalism.[10] Besides writing for The Washington Post, Frankel's work has appeared in Vanity Fair, The Wall Street Journal, Politico, Mother Jones, New Statesman, Moment, Zocalo Public Square, and several anthologies.[11]

Books

Frankel's first book, Beyond the Promised Land: Jews and Arabs on the Hard Road to a New Israel (Simon & Schuster, 1994), won the 1995

Alicia Patterson Journalism Fellowship for book research.[13]

The Searchers: The Making of an American Legend (Bloomsbury, 2013) was a New York Times and Los Angeles Times bestseller and a finalist for the 2013 L.A Times Book Prize.[14][15] It was named one of Library Journal's Top Ten Books of 2013 and won the Richard Wall Memorial Award for exemplary research from the Theatre Library Association.[16][17]

High Noon: The Hollywood Blacklist and the Making of an American Classic (Bloomsbury, 2017) was an L.A Times bestseller.(citation) "Frankel reviews the now familiar history of the blacklist with grace and accuracy," wrote an L.A. Times Review.[18] "His descriptions of witness testimony are particularly vivid...Fascinating."[19]

Frankel was named a 2018 Motion Picture Academy Film Scholar and awarded a $25,000 grant to aid his research for a book project on New York in the 1960s and the making of the film Midnight Cowboy.[20] The book, Shooting Midnight Cowboy: Art, Sex, Loneliness, Liberation and the Making of a Dark Classic, was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2021.[21] The book inspired Nancy Buirski's 2022 film documentary, Desperate Souls, Dark City, and the Legend of Midnight City.[22]

References

  1. ^ "The 1989 Pulitzer Prize Winner in International Reporting". The Pulitzer Prizes. 2019. Retrieved 2019-08-18.
  2. ^ "Biography". Glenn Frankel. Retrieved 2019-08-18.
  3. ^ "School of Journalism director Glenn Frankel to leave UT after 2013-2014 academic year - The Daily Texan". dailytexanonline.com. Retrieved 2017-02-11.
  4. ^ "The Academy Announces 2018 Film Scholars Grant Recipients". Oscars.org. June 20, 2018. Retrieved 2019-08-18.
  5. ^ Ziolkowski, Thad. "The 2021 - 2022 Biography Fellows". Leon Levy Center for Biography. Retrieved 2024-01-06.
  6. ^ "Bookshelf". Columbia College Today. 2021-09-13. Retrieved 2022-05-30.
  7. ^ "Class of 1983". John S. Knight Journalism Fellowships at Stanford. Retrieved 2019-08-18.
  8. ^ "1989 Pulitzer Prizes". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2019-08-08.
  9. ^ "Glenn Frankel named director of journalism school at U. of Texas - academicjobs.net". www.academicjobs.net. Retrieved 2019-08-18.
  10. ^ Pulitzer Prize Winner Named UT School of Journalism Director
  11. ^ "Glenn's Articles". glennfrankel. Retrieved 2019-08-18.
  12. ^ "Past Winners". Jewish Book Council. Retrieved 2019-08-18.
  13. ^ "Fellows | Alicia Patterson Foundation". aliciapatterson.org. Retrieved 2019-08-18.
  14. ^ "BIO". glennfrankel. Retrieved 2019-08-18.
  15. ^ Hoffert, Barbara. "Finalists Announced for Los Angeles Times Book Prizes". Library Journal. Retrieved 2019-08-18.
  16. ^ "BIO". glennfrankel. Retrieved 2019-08-18.
  17. ^ Association, Theatre Library (2014-09-13). "TLA Announces 2013 Book Award Winners". Theatre Library Association. Retrieved 2019-08-18.
  18. ^ "Refugees and free speech: How Hollywood classics 'Casablanca' and 'High Noon' were shaped by politics". Los Angeles Times. 2017-02-24. Retrieved 2019-08-18.
  19. ^ "Refugees and free speech: How Hollywood classics 'Casablanca' and 'High Noon' were shaped by politics". Los Angeles Times. 2017-02-24. Retrieved 2019-08-18.
  20. ^ "THE ACADEMY ANNOUNCES 2018 FILM SCHOLARS GRANT RECIPIENTS". Oscars.org | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. 2021-04-02. Retrieved 2019-08-18.
  21. ^ "'Midnight Cowboy' was a masterpiece made of desperation". Washington Post. 2021-04-02. Retrieved 2023-02-15.
  22. ^ "DESPERATE SOULS AND THE LEGEND OF MIDNIGHT COWBOY". AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center. Retrieved 2024-01-06.

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