Art Plotnik
{{Short description|Author and librarian, editor of American Libraries magazine (1937–2020)}}{{More categories|date=June 2025}}File:Art Plotnik.png
Arthur Plotnik (1937 - August 28, 2020) was a photographer, journalist, author and librarian, known for being the editor of American Libraries magazine for fifteen years.{{cite web | last=Bertram | first=Cara | title=Library Life: The Arthur Plotnik Photographs | website=American Library Association Archives | date=2018-07-18 | url=https://archives.library.illinois.edu/ala/library-life-the-arthur-plotnik-photographs/ | access-date=2020-08-31}} Plotnik worked for the American Library Association for over twenty years.{{cite web | title=The Art Plotnik photograph collection | website=American Libraries Magazine | date=2018-07-18 | url=https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/latest-links/art-plotnik-photograph-collection/ | access-date=2020-08-31}} His photographs covering 23 years of librarians and librarianship are held at the American Library Association Archives.{{cite web | title=Arthur Plotnik Photographs, 1969-1992 | website=The American Library Association Archives | url=https://archon.library.illinois.edu/ala/index.php?p=collections/controlcard&id=8628 | access-date=2020-08-31}}
Before working at ALA, Plotnik worked at the Library of Congress and was a staff writer and reviewer at Albany’s Times-Union. Two of his books The Elements of Editing and The Elements of Expression: Putting Thoughts into Words were Book of the Month Club selections.{{cite web | title=Arthur Plotnik | website=PenguinRandomhouse.com | date=2020-08-20 | url=https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/24115/arthur-plotnik | access-date=2020-08-31}}
Early life
Plotnik was born in 1937 to Annabelle and Mike Plotnik, Russian immigrants.{{cite web | last=Liebson | first=Richard | title=Coming-of-age novel reflects the American experience that was 1950s White Plains | website=lohud.com | date=2019-02-19 | url=https://www.lohud.com/story/news/local/westchester/white-plains/2019/02/19/aaron-schmink-first-crazy-love/2917296002/ | access-date=2020-08-31}} Plotnik graduated from White Plains High School in 1955; he was voted "wittiest" in his class. He earned a BA at Harpur College and a master's degree in English at the University of Iowa, where he studied under Philip Roth.
Works and publications
- Aaron Schmink's first crazy love (2018) {{ISBN|9781092112154}}
- Better than great: a plenitudinous compendium of wallopingly fresh superlatives (2013, with Richard Waterhouse) {{ISBN|9780792788027}}
- The Elements of Expression: Putting Thoughts into Words (2012, with Jessica Morell) {{ISBN|9781936740246 }}
- Spunk & bite: a writer's guide to bold, contemporary style (2005) {{ISBN|9780375722271}}
- Elements of authorship: from lonely honk to roar of the crowd (2000) {{ISBN|9780595001194}}
- The urban tree book: an uncommon field guide for city and town (2000) {{ISBN|9780812931037}}
- Honk if you're a writer: unabashed advice, undiluted experience, and unadulterated inspiration for writers and writers-to-be (1992) {{ISBN|9780671778132}}
- Man Behind the Quill, Jacob Shallus (1987) {{ISBN|9780911333589}}
- The Elements of Editing: A Modern Guide for Editors and Journalists (1982) {{ISBN|9780585059853}}
- Library Life--American Style: A Journalist's Field Report (1975) {{ISBN|9780810808522}}
References
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External links
- [https://www.arthurplotnik.com/home.html Official site]
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