Gwenda Blair

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Gwenda Linda Blair (born May 10, 1943 in Washington, DC ) is an American journalist , university teacher, and non-fiction author .

Life

Gwenda Blair is a daughter of the lawyer Newell Blair and his wife Greta Blair, b. Flinter man. After graduating from Wheaton College in Massachusetts , she studied at the University of Michigan , where she graduated in 1964 with a bachelor's degree . She then studied journalism at the University of California at Berkeley , which she completed with a Master of Arts (MA).

She published for a while as a freelance journalist in newspapers and magazines such as Chicago , The Village Voice , SmartMoney , Esquire , Daily News , Newsweek , New York , TV Guide , The New York Times (NYT) and Politico . Gwenda Blair lives in Chicago and teaches at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York.

She made her debut as a book author in 1980 with a biography about the writer Laura Ingalls Wilder . Her biography of NBC news anchor Jessica Savitch (1947–1983), which appeared in 1988, became a bestseller and was made into a film in 1995. The Trumps followed in 2000 , a monograph on the then real estate entrepreneur Donald Trump , his father Fred C. Trump and his grandparents from the Palatinate . This book was published for the third time in 2017 after Donald Trump became US President. Donald Trump appeared in 2005 . Master Apprentice , which dealt with Trump's reality show The Apprentice . The TV film Trump Unauthorized (German version: Donald Trump's big show ) with Louis Ferreira in the leading role was based on these two books .

Fonts

  • Laura Ingalls Wilder . Putnam Publishing Group, New York 1980.
  • with Barbara Deming: Remembering who we are. In dialogue with Gwenda Blair, Kathy Brown, Arthur Kinoy, Bradford Lyttle, Susan Sherman, Leah Fritz, and Susan Saxe . Pagoda Publications, University of Michigan, Tallahassee 1981.
  • Mop 'n' Glow. The Absorbing Story of the Contraceptive Sponge . In: The Village Voice , 1 (1984), p. 1.
  • Citizen Peretz. The Political Evolution of a Man (Martin Peretz), his Magazine ( The New Republic ), and his Movement (liberalism) from Left to Right . In: Esquire , July (1985).
  • Almost golden. Jessica Savitch and the Selling of Television News . Simon & Schuster , New York 1988, ISBN 978-0-671-63285-4 .
  • The trumps. Three Generations that Built an Empire . Simon & Schuster, 2000, ISBN 0-7432-1079-4 .
    • The trumps. Three Generations of Builders and a Presidential Candidate . Simon & Schuster, 2015. (Reprinted with a new foreword.)
    • The trumps. Three Generations of Builders and a President . Simon & Schuster, 2017, ISBN 978-0-7432-1079-9 . (Reprinted with a new foreword.)
  • Donald Trump. Master Apprentice . Simon & Schuster, New York 2005, ISBN 0-7432-7510-1 .
  • Donald Trump. The candidate . Simon & Schuster, New York 2007, ISBN 978-1-4165-4654-2 .

literature

  • "BLAIR Gwenda (Linda) 1943: Born May 10, 1943, in Washington, DC (...)" In: Scot Peacock: Contemporary Authors. New Revision Series. A Bio-Bibliographical Guide to Current Writers in Fiction, General Nonfiction, Poetry, Journalism, Drama, Motion Pictures, Television, and Other Field . Cengage Learning, Gale 2001, p. 55.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Attorney, Publisher Newell Blair Dies. The Washington Post Company, June 21, 2004, archived from the original on February 12, 2017 ; Retrieved February 12, 2017 (American English).
  2. ↑ Gwenda Blair. Simon & Schuster , accessed February 12, 2017 (American English).
  3. ^ Howard Rosenberg: 'Savitch': An Anchorwoman's Tragic Fast-Track Life, Career. Los Angeles Times , September 4, 1995.
  4. ↑ Internet Movie Database : Trump Unauthorized (2005) .
personal data
SURNAME Blair, Gwenda
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Blair, Gwenda Linda (full maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American journalist, university lecturer, and non-fiction author
DATE OF BIRTH May 10, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Washington, DC