Buzz Bissinger
Harry Gerard "Buzz" Bissinger III (born November 1, 1954 in New York City ) is an American author , screenwriter and journalist .
Career
After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania in 1970, he began working as a journalist for the St. Paul Pioneer Press , later moving to the Philadelphia Inquirer . There he published a series of articles on the Philadelphia court system with Daniel Briddleand and Fredric Tulsky , for which they received the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Journalism . In 1988 he moved to Odessa , Texas , where he wrote the book Friday Night Lights - A Town, a Team, and a Dream , which was filmed in 2004 with Friday Night Lights - Touchdown on Friday and was the template for the Friday Night Lights series . He has been working for Vanity Fair magazine since 1995 . In September 1998 he published the article Shattered Galss there , which was filmed in 2003 . In 2000 he moved to Los Angeles and worked there as a screenwriter on the eighth season of the series New York Cops - NYPD Blue ( NYPD Blue ).
Works
- Friday Night Lights - A Town, a Team, and a Dream . Da Capo Press, ISBN 978-0-306-82421-0 .
- Father's Day: A Journey into the Mind and Heart of My Extraordinary Son . Houghton Mifflin , ISBN 978-0-547-81656-2 .
- Three Nights in August: Strategy, Heartbreak, and Joy Inside the Mind of a Manager . Mariner Books, ISBN 978-0-618-71053-9 .
- A prayer for the city . Vintage, ISBN 978-0-679-74494-8 .
Web links
- Buzz Bissinger in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official website
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Bissinger, Harry Gerard III (Buzz). (No longer available online.) Pennsylvania State University, archived from the original on May 23, 2016 ; accessed on May 23, 2016 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Buzz Bissinger on Writing "Call Me Caitlyn" and the Worldwide Reaction That Followed. Retrieved May 23, 2016 .
- ^ Shattered Glass: thorough investigation into one man's journalistic fraud. The Guardian , accessed May 23, 2016 .
- ↑ David Carr: he Real Star of Stephen Glass's Movie: A Magazine. The New York Times , October 19, 2003, accessed May 23, 2016 .
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SURNAME | Bissinger, Buzz |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bissinger, Harry Gerard III (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American author, screenwriter, and journalist |
DATE OF BIRTH | November 1, 1954 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City , United States |