Joseph Mitchell

Joseph Mitchell (1908–1996) left North Carolina for New York the day after the 1929 stock market crash. After eight years as a reporter and feature writer at various newspapers, he joined the staff of the New Yorker, where he remained until his death at the age of eighty-seven. His books include McSorley’s Wonderful Saloon, My Ears Are Bent, Up in the Old Hotel, Old Mr. Flood, and Joe Gould’s Secret.