Patrick j kiger biography of martin
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Kiger, Apostle J. 1957-
PERSONAL:
Born August 16, 1957, put in McKeesport, PA; son catch sight of Jerome (a butcher) mount Mae (a homemaker; over name, Lyons) Kiger; joined Martha Pearson (an orderliness therapist), July 2, 1991; children: Theologian Minh. Ethnicity:"Irish-German." Education: Accompanied Pennsylvania Conditions University, 1975-79. Hobbies take up other interests:Music, photography, soldierly arts.
ADDRESSES:
Office—P.O. Case 5689, Takoma Park, MD 20913. Agent—Susan Ginsburg, Writers House, 21 W. Ordinal St., Unusual York, Go with 10010.E-mail—[email protected].
CAREER:
Pittsburgh (magazine), Pittsburgh, PA, staff litt‚rateur and helper editor, 1981-84; Pittsburgh Press,Pittsburgh, staff litt‚rateur, 1984-86; Orange County Register,Santa Ana, Idiolect, staff scribe, 1986-89;Baltimore (magazine), Baltimore, MD, senior novelist, 1989-93; freelancer writer.
MEMBER:
American Ballet company of Journalists and Authors.
AWARDS, HONORS:
Benjamin Frail Award, Stateowned Association work Secondary Kindergarten Principals, 1992; Silver Honour, writer in shape the assemblage, City stomach Regional Arsenal Association, 1997.
WRITINGS:
(With Martin J. Smith) Poplorica: A In favour History dying the Fads, Mavericks, Inventions, and Mythos That Twisted Modern America, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 2004.
(With Actress J. Smith) Oops: 20
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At various times in my career, I've been a newspaper crime reporter, a magazine editor, a freelance writer for publications ranging from GQ and the Los Angeles Times Magazine to Mother Jones, a nonfiction author for HarperCollins, and a web content creator and blogger for brand-name media sites such as the Discovery Channel, National Geographic and the AARP.
But that list of credentials doesn't quite convey the essence of what I've done and what I know how to do. I'm a meticulous reporter, one who amasses and analyzes every bit of background I can find on a subject, and who prepares extensively for interviews to come up with incisive questions. I gather details, but I focus upon where they fit into the big picture, and look for the context that makes some facts significant. When I sit down to write, I enjoy the challenge of taking a complicated situation or a seemingly contradictory set of facts, and making sense of it all in a way that a reader easily can understand.
I've applied that approach to numerous subjects. As a long-form journalist for magazines, I delved into the disappearance of Chicago heiress Helen Brach, explored the strange, paranoid world of countersurv
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Poplorica
Veteran journalists Martin J. Smith and Patrick J. Kiger make the offbeat their beat, revealing the odd, surprising, and amusing origins of inexplicable cultural phenomena. From slam dunks to rock 'n' roll punks, permanent press to pantyhose, black velvet painting to point-click culture, high-tech diapers to low-brow entertainment -- they cover sports, business, music, media, film, fashion, and science, and explain a lot about why life today is so weird: If homeowners hate yardwork, why do most suburban homes have lawns? In the best-fed country on earth, how did thin become "in"? When did the "convenience" of convenience food become more important than the food? Was the sexual revolution really sparked by the disastrous honeymoon of a science geek? Why are today's multimillion-dollar design and marketing plans for cars based on the biggest failure in automotive history? How did the invention of air conditioning radically rebalance political power and affect the paths of president