Gary Pomerantz
{{Short description|American journalist}}
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{{Infobox writer
| name = Gary M. Pomerantz
| image = Garypomerantz2014.jpg
| caption = Pomerantz in 2014
| pseudonym =
| birth_name = Gary Mason Pomerantz
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1960|11|17}}
| birth_place= North Tarrytown, New York, U.S.
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| occupation = Author, lecturer, journalist
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| genre = Non-fiction
| subject = History, race relations, sports
| website = {{URL|garympomerantz.com}}
}}
Gary M. Pomerantz (born November 17, 1960) is an American journalist and author who lectures in the graduate program in journalism at Stanford University.{{cite news |accessdate = September 10, 2014 |url = http://journalism.stanford.edu/faculty/
|title = Stanford Journalism -Faculty |publisher = Stanford University |location = California }} His books include Where Peachtree Meets Sweet Auburn (1996 New York Times Notable Book of the Year),{{cite news |accessdate = September 10, 2014 |url =https://www.nytimes.com/1996/07/21/books/atlanta-in-black-and-white.html |title = Atlanta in Black and White By Paul Goldberger |work = The New York Times |date = July 21, 1996 |author = Goldberger, Paul |location = New York }} a multi-generational biography of Atlanta, Georgia and its racial conscience, told through the families of Atlanta Mayors Maynard Jackson and Ivan Allen Jr., and The Last Pass: Cousy, Russell, the Celtics, and What Matters in the End (2018), a New York Times bestseller about race, regret and the storied Boston Celtics dynasty.
Early life
Pomerantz was born in North Tarrytown, New York, the youngest of three boys. His family moved to Orlando, Florida, when he was a boy, and then to Los Angeles in 1971. He studied history at the University of California, Berkeley, graduating with BA in 1982. While at Berkeley, he served for a time as sports editor of the flagship student newspaper, The Daily Californian.{{Cite news|url=http://www.garympomerantz.com/about-gary#accordian_item_978|title=About Gary - Gary M Pomerantz|work=Gary M Pomerantz|access-date=2017-06-21|language=en-US}}{{cite web|url = https://journalism.stanford.edu/people/gary-m-pomerantz |title = Stanford Journalism - Lecturer Gary M. Pomerantz|website =journalism.stanford.edu}}
Career
Pomerantz worked as a daily journalist for nearly two decades. In 1981, he followed John Feinstein and Michael Wilbon as a summer intern in the sports department at The Washington Post. At the Post, he covered Georgetown University basketball{{cite news |accessdate = September 10, 2014 |url =http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/articles/43995/hoya-euphoria-georgetown-basketball-the-big-east-syracuse-john-thompson/ |title = Hoya Euphoria, Georgetown basketball, the Big East, Syracuse, John Thompson Jr., and D.C.: An oral history |work = Washington City Paper | date = March 8, 2013 | author = Sigel, Alan | location = Washington}} and the National Football League. In 1987–1988, he served as a Journalism Fellow at the University of Michigan, studying theater and the Bible. He then moved to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution where, for the next 11 years, he wrote social and political profiles, special projects, columns and served on the newspaper's editorial board.{{Citation needed|date=June 2017}}
His six nonfiction books feature a broad array of topics. Nine Minutes Twenty Seconds (2001), about the crash of Atlantic Southeast Airlines Flight 529, was also published in China, Germany and Britain.{{Citation needed|date=June 2017}} In WILT, 1962 (2005), Pomerantz describes the night when basketball star Wilt Chamberlain scored 100 points in a game against the New York Knicks in Hershey, Pennsylvania. Named an "Editors' Choice" book by The New York Times,{{cite news |accessdate = September 10, 2014 |url =https://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/03/books/review/0703bb-hardcover.html
|title = The New York Times -Editors' Choice |work = The New York Times | date = July 3, 2005 | location = New York}} WILT, 1962 was described by Entertainment Weekly as "a meticulous and engaging narrative – a slam dunk of a read."{{cite magazine |accessdate = September 10, 2014 |url =http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,1052624,00.html
|archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20070523023111/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,1052624,00.html
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|archive-date =May 23, 2007
|title = Entertainment Weekly -Review |magazine = Entertainment Weekly | date = April 25, 2005}}
Where Peachtree Meets Sweet Auburn was optioned by independent studio wiip in fall 2021 and is currently in development for adaptation to television.{{cite news |accessdate = June 21, 2022 |url =https://deadline.com/2021/09/wiip-options-where-peachtree-meets-sweet-auburn-book-televisioin-1234834341/ |title = Wiip Options 'Where Peachtree Meets Sweet Auburn' Book For Television Adaptation | date = September 15, 2021}}
In 2017, author Malcolm Gladwell praised Where Peachtree Meets Sweet Auburn, telling Business Insider, "It's probably the best book I've read in quite some time. It's an incredibly cool way to think about a city. I've always been fascinated by Atlanta, and I didn't really understand the city until I read that book . . . It's told so beautifully through these two families. It's really a remarkable book."{{Cite news|url=http://www.businessinsider.com/malcolm-gladwell-favorite-book-of-2017-2017-9|title=Malcolm Gladwell shares the best book he's read this year|work=Business Insider|access-date=2017-11-03|language=en}}
His book, Their Life's Work, about the Pittsburgh Steelers' football dynasty of the 1970s, short-listed for the 2014 PEN/ESPN Award for literary sportswriting.{{cite news |accessdate = September 10, 2014 |url =http://www.pen.org/press-release/2014/06/17/shortlists-announced-2014-pen-literary-awards |title = PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing | date = June 17, 2014}}
From 1999 to 2001 Pomerantz served as distinguished visiting professor of journalism at Emory University in Atlanta. In 2007, he began lecturing at Stanford University, teaching courses on specialized reporting and writing.{{cite news |accessdate = September 10, 2014 |url = http://comm.stanford.edu/faculty-pomerantz/ |title = Stanford Journalism -Visiting Lecturer |publisher = Stanford University |location = California |archive-date = August 5, 2013 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130805122254/http://comm.stanford.edu/faculty-pomerantz/ |url-status = dead }}{{cite news|title=Forty Years Later Gary Pomerantz Tells a Tale of a Record-Breaking Team|url=http://jewishbusinessnews.com/2013/11/04/forty-years-later-gary-pomerantz-tells-a-tale-of-a-record-breaking-team/|work=Jewish Business News|date=November 4, 2013}}
Personal life
Pomerantz lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife Carrie Schwab-Pomerantz, daughter of Charles R. Schwab.
Books
- {{cite book|author=Pomerantz, Gary M.|publisher=Scribner's|date=1996|title=Where Peachtree Meets Sweet Auburn: A Saga of Race and Family|edition=1st|isbn=0684807173|url=https://archive.org/details/wherepeachtreeme00pome_0}}
- {{cite book|author=Pomerantz, Gary M.|publisher=Crown Publishers|date=2001|title=Nine Minutes, Twenty Seconds: The Tragedy & Triumph of ASA Flight 529|edition=1st|isbn=0609606336|url=https://archive.org/details/nineminutestwent00pome}}
- {{cite book|author=Pomerantz, Gary M.|publisher=Crown Publishers|date=2005|title=WILT, 1962: The Night of 100 Points and the Dawn of a New Era|edition=1st|isbn=1400051606|url=https://archive.org/details/wilt1962nightof00pome}}
- {{cite book|author=Pomerantz, Gary M.|publisher=Crown Publishers|date=2009|title=The Devil's Tickets: A Night of Bridge, a Fatal Hand, and a New American Age|edition=1st|isbn=978-1400051625|url=https://archive.org/details/devilsticketsn00pome}}
- {{cite book|author=Pomerantz, Gary M.|publisher=Simon & Schuster|date=2013|title=Their Life's Work: The Brotherhood of the 1970s Pittsburgh Steelers, Then and Now|edition=1st|isbn=978-1451691627}}
- Pomerantz, Gary M. (2018). The Last Pass: Cousy, Russell, the Celtics, and What Matters in the End (1st ed.) Penguin Press. {{ISBN|0735223610}}
See also
References
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External links
- {{official website }}
- [http://comm.stanford.edu/faculty-pomerantz/ Stanford University Department of Communication] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130805122254/http://comm.stanford.edu/faculty-pomerantz/ |date=August 5, 2013 }}
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBOh0DG7RMM "Their Life's Work" Interview, KD/PG Sunday Edition appearance on Pittsburgh television.] (audio-video)
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGSMLIGQTts "Nine Minutes, Twenty Seconds" interview, CNN Sunday Morning] (audio-video)
- [https://www.npr.org/2018/10/27/660969227/bob-cousy-90-still-rues-the-assists-he-didnt-make-to-bill-russell "The Last Pass" interview with Bob Cousy, NPR] (audio-video)
- {{LCAuth|n96017027|Gary M. Pomerantz|4|}}
- [https://rose.library.emory.edu/ Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library]: [http://pid.emory.edu/ark:/25593/8zs58 Gary M. Pomerantz papers, 1991-2005]
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