MARILYN JOHNSON
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CHECK IT OUT “When you read the newspaper each day, whether online or in its smudging newsprint form, always read the obituaries first.” --Sage advice from Bard College President Leon Botstein’s “Charge to the Graduating Class of 2008.”  I wrote The Dead Beat: Lost Souls, Lucky Stiffs, and the Perverse Pleasures of Obituaries after writing obituaries for Katharine Hepburn, Princess Diana, Jackie Onassis, Johnny Cash, Bob Hope, and Marlon Brando for Life and other magazines. I've been a staff writer for Life and an editor for Esquire. My articles, reviews, essays, and poetry have appeared in many publications. I live in Briarcliff, New York, and I'm working on another book. |
NEWS Interview with Jean Feraca and Ann Wroe of the Economist on NPR's Here on Earth Barnes & Noble Discover Prize Finalist Barnes & Noble Interview Marilyn Johnson Amazon Best Books of 2006 Top 10 Editors' Picks: Nonfiction 2007 Washington Irving Book Selection San Francisco Chronicle Best Books of 2006 Haiku Journalism by Marilyn Johnson in The New York Times Book Review The Check I Cherished by Marilyn Johnson in Chronogram Just Under Twenty Questions by Claire Zulkey www.Zulkey.com Bringing the Dead to Life by Bob Chaundy BBC News Online Death is the Story of Their Lives by Craig Wilson USA Today  Look for THE DEAD BEAT in paperback with a new epilogue from Harper Perennial in the U.S. and from Souvenir Press in the U.K. |
