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Times Union editor-at-large Harry Rosenfeld has won a 2014 Independent Publisher Book Award, or IPPY, for his book, "From Kristallnacht to Watergate: Memoirs of a Newspaperman."
It is the latest in a recent string of honors for Rosenfeld, 84, of Albany, the son of a Polish-born Jewish furrier. Rosenfeld grew up in Berlin and escaped Nazi Germany as a young boy along with his parents and older sister, and emigrated to America in 1939.
The book details Rosenfeld's formative years in the Bronx as a German refugee, his drive to learn English and landing his first job in newspapers as a teenaged shipping clerk at the New York Herald Tribune, where he eventually rose up the editing ranks.
Rosenfeld also describes in depth his role as Metro Editor of the Washington Post during its Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the Watergate scandal led by the dogged work of Rosenfeld's reporters, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein.
More from Paul Grondahl in the Times Union: http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Newspaperman-s-memoir-wins-award-5504423.php
Winners of the First New York State “Poetry Unites – My Favorite Poem” Contest
Announced
Austin Bunn, screenwriter of the 2013 hit film Kill Your Darlings starring Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter) as Allen Ginsberg, visits the Writers Institute this Friday.
More: http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/archives/bunn_austin14.html
Here's an interview with Bunn, who teaches screenwriting at Cornell, in the Cornell Daily Sun:
The Sun: Tell me a little bit about your movie.
Prof. Austin Bunn: So, Kill Your Darlings is the
story of the origins of the beat generation, so it’s about Allen
Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and Bill Boroughs when they were young men, long
before they became the people that you know them to be. So if most
biopics are about like great men at the peak of their lives, this is
about them at point zero of their lives when they’re just kids and
they’re still figuring out who they are and trying to become artists.
One critics who reviewed the movie called it Beat Generation: First
Class — these are these major American literary figures when they’re
just punks, bad students, you know, dorm roommates, when they’re kids.
More in The Sun: http://cornellsun.com/blog/2013/02/01/sex-drugs-and-beats-an-interview-with-prof-austin-bunn/