Jock Carroll

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Jock Carroll (March 5, 1919 – August 4, 1995[1]) was a Canadian writer, journalist and photographer who worked for the Canadian media, including the Toronto Telegram.

History

Born in

photojournalist, commencing in the late 1940s.[2] He both took and developed his own photographs from a self-made darkroom and quickly became popular for being able to produce news reports with accompanying photographs. His first published works appeared in such magazines as Saturday Night, Sports Illustrated and Esquire. In 1950, Carroll joined Weekend magazine as a staff writer. He ultimately became the associate editor of the magazine, during the course of his twenty-year association with it.[2]

During the

Pusan, in South Korea.[3] Carroll was able to persuade management at Weekend Magazine to sponsor Pak Jong Yong's university education in Canada.[2] Carroll later became the president of the Canadian War Correspondents Association
.

In addition to his presidency of the Canadian War Correspondents Association, Carroll was a member of a number of journalist organizations, including the

Authors League of America, the Professional Photographers Association of Canada and the Ontario Sports Writers Association
.

In 1961, Bottoms Up, Carroll's only novel, was published by Olympia Press. It was reissued by Collectors Publications in 1967.[5] Collectors Publications, similar to Olympia Press, was known for publishing risqué novels.[6] The novel is a satire about the magazine industry, with the heroine based on Marilyn Monroe, whom Carroll had interviewed and photographed in 1952.[2] The book was not accepted for publication in Canada, due to its sexual content. Carroll then approached Maurice Girodias, the owner of Paris-based Olympia Press, who agreed to publish it. When republished in 1964 by Stein and Day as The Shy Photographer, the book was translated into multiple languages and sold half a million copies.[2]

Carroll's book, The Death of the Toronto Telegram and Other Newspaper Stories was published in 1971 by Pocket Books Canada, a division of Simon & Schuster. The book includes many anecdotes about the Canadian newspaper business from the 1940s to 1970. Included are interviews with Marilyn Monroe in 1952, writer Arthur Hailey (1966), Elvis Presley (1956), and Toronto millionaire businessman "Honest" Ed Mirvish (1970).

In 1972, Simon & Schuster published Carroll's book on the 1972 Summer Olympic Games.[7]

Carroll then became associated with Pocket Books Canada as the editor of a series of mass-market paperbacks by Canadian authors, known as "Carroll's Canadian Originals".

lookalike.[8]

Carroll's next book was The Life and Times of Gregory Clark, Canada's Favorite Storyteller, published by Doubleday in 1981. Clark was a well-known Canadian journalist who had died in 1977. Clark was also Caroll's colleague at Weekend Magazine, where Clark was the back-page columnist.[9]

In 1984, Carroll contributed the text to The Farm, which featured photographs by

sesquicentennial of Ontario, was a history of Ontario farming in the early 20th century. Black and white photos by Sallows were complemented by contemporary colour photos by de Visser,[12]
plus text from Carroll.

In 1995, Carroll was subject to a claim in relation to

Gould Estate v. Stoddart Publishing Co. Ltd.
, though the decision was rendered subsequent to Carroll's death.

In 1996, Carroll's book, Falling For Marilyn: The Lost Niagara Collection, was published posthumously by Stoddart Publishing. It contains photographs of Marilyn Monroe taken by Carroll in 1952, on the set of the film Niagara, which had originally accompanied a 1952 article by Carroll in Weekend magazine.

Publications

Non-fiction

Fiction

External links

Archives at
LocationLibrary and Archives Canada Edit this on Wikidata
Identifiers2173144 Edit this on Wikidata
SourceJock Carroll fonds
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References

  1. ^ Ontario Superior Court of Justice (1998). Jock Carroll. Vol. 39. p. 548. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  2. ^ a b c d e Angus Carroll, Behind Every Book A Story; June 20, 2010. Retrieved March 15, 2016.
  3. ^ Google Books, Summary of Korean Boy. Retrieved April 2, 2016.
  4. ^ Known, as of 1974, as the Toronto Press Club, and later as the Toronto Press and Media Club. Toronto Press and Media Club, History of the Toronto Press and Media Club. Retrieved April 8, 2016.
  5. Amazon.com, Particulars of Bottoms Up
    . Retrieved April 8, 2016.
  6. ^ Robert Spoo, Without Copyrights: Piracy, Publishing and the Public Domain. Oxford University Press 2013, pp. 258–259. Retrieved April 8, 2016.
  7. Amazon.ca, Particulars of The Summer Olympic Games
    . Retrieved April 9, 2016.
  8. ^ a b Brian Busby, Carroll's Canadian Originals. The Dusty Bookcase, February 18, 2010. Retrieved April 10, 2016.
  9. ^ Canadian Journalism Foundation, Greg Clark 1892–1977. Retrieved April 16, 2016.
  10. ^ Uncredited, Biography of Reuben Sallows; Reuben R. Sallows Digital Library. Retrieved April 22, 2016.
  11. ^ About John de Visser; johndevisser.com. Retrieved April 22, 2016.
  12. ^ Description of The Farm; abebooks.com. Retrieved April 22, 2016.
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