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	Joseph Mitchell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Joseph Mitchell (July 27, 1908 - May 24, 1996) was an American writer who wrote for The New Yorker.
		Mitchell was born on his mother's parents' farm near Iona, North Carolina, the son of Averette Nance and Elizabeth A. Parker Mitchell.
		Joseph Mitchell served on the board of directors of the Gypsy Lore Society, was one of the founders of the South Street Seaport Museum, was involved with the Friends of Cast-Iron Architecture, and served five years on the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Joseph_Mitchell (624 words)

	Joseph Mitchell -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Joseph Mitchell (July 27, 1908 - May 24, 1996) was a American writer who wrote for (additional info and facts about The New Yorker) The New Yorker.
		Mitchell joined the (additional info and facts about The New Yorker) The New Yorker in 1938 and remained associated with the magazine until his death.
		Mitchell's account of Gould's extravagantly disguised case of (additional info and facts about writer's block) writer's block, published as Joe Gould's Secret (1964), presaged the last decades of Mitchell's own life.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/j/jo/joseph_mitchell.htm (636 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online: MITCHELL, JOSEPH DANIEL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Joseph Daniel Mitchell, pioneer entomologist and conchologist, was born on October 22, 1848, at Mitchell's Point, Calhoun County, Texas, the son of Mary August (Kerr) and Isaac Newton Mitchell.
		Mitchell was a member of the Victoria city council and represented the Eighty-third District in the House of the Twenty-fourth Legislature, where he was one of the authors of the law establishing the office of state fish and oyster commissioner, the precursor of the Texas Game and Fish Commission.
		Mitchell School, named in honor of the naturalist, was built in 1901, the first school in the new district.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/MM/fmi53.html (549 words)

	village voice > nyclife > The Essay by Thomas Beller
		Mitchell invented a temporal dimension for his stories, a strange and twilit place—Mitchell Time—where a density of historical fact and the feeling of whole eras fading from view are sharply juxtaposed with scenes of cinematic immediacy related in the present tense.
		Mitchell arrived in New York City from rural North Carolina in the early '30s, developed his style at several local papers, and then joined The New Yorker, where he had a distinguished career as a contributor and, to a degree, inventor of that magazine's long-form profile.
		Mitchell is a pioneer of the long quote in journalism and a master of making it sing.
	www.villagevoice.com /nyclife/0518,essay,63559,15.html (1228 words)

	Biography of Joseph Mitchell
		Mitchell attended the University of North Carolina for four years but left for a reporting job in Durham before attaining his degree.
		Most of Joseph Mitchell's stories were centered on New York, but some, including "Hit Over the Head with a Cow" and "The Downfall of Fascism in Black Ankle County," came straight out of his Robeson County upbringing.
		Joseph Mitchell has been called "the paragon of reporters." Calvin Trillin called him "the New Yorker reporter who set the standard." He was such a perfectionist about his work that he would not let even his close friends and associates see what he was working on until it was in print.
	www.ncwriters.org /services/lhof/inductees/jmitchel.htm (1085 words)

	Biography: Joseph Sidney Mitchell
		JOSEPH SIDNEY MITCHELL, son of Joseph Mitchell and his wife, Sallie Folger, was born December 9, 1839.
		Mitchell prepared for college in private schools and the Boston public schools, where his father resided while he held the office of State auditor.
		Dr. Mitchell published articles numerously in the magazines and scientific journals, which were always closely followed by all students of homeopathy.
	www.geneabios.com /williams/mitchell.htm (793 words)

	The Middle Stage
		In my opinion an example of such journalism is the work of the late New Yorker journalist Joseph Mitchell (1908-1996), whose essays on the life of New York city, now collected in several books, shimmer with intelligence, grace, curiosity, and a close observation and a flair for detail that could be said to be novelistic.
		Mitchell came to New York at the age of 21 in 1929, spent a few years working as a reporter for a number of newspapers, and then joined the New Yorker, itself one of the city’s great institutions, towards the end of the next decade.
		Mitchell took many years to perfect his style, but what resulted from his labours was something authentic and mightily impressive.
	middlestage.blogspot.com /2005/05/art-of-joseph-mitchell.html (770 words)

	The Designer of the Supermarine Spitfire - Reginald Mitchell
		Reginald Joseph Mitchell, designer of the Supermarine Spitfire, was born in Talke Village near Stoke on Trent on 20 May 1895.
		Mitchell was however a sick man. He underwent an operation to remove abdominal cancer late in 1933 and almost died.
		This was in effect the start of the end for Mitchell as with the intense pressure that he placed himself under, he literally devoted his life to the project.
	www.supermarine-spitfire.co.uk /designer.html (882 words)

	Books at Random House of Canada - Author Spotlight: Joseph Mitchell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Joseph Mitchell came to New York City on October 25, 1929 (the day after the stock-market crash), from a small farming town called Fairmont, in the swamp country of southeastern North Carolina.
		Joseph Mitchell was a legendary New Yorker writer and the author of the national bestseller Up in the Old Hotel, in which these two pieces appeared.
		Mitchell explored a New York City that has now vanished in his four books and his classic reportage for The New Yorker.
	www.randomhouse.ca /catalog/author.pperl?authorid=20880 (306 words)

	The New York Review of Books: Out of Step with the World
		Joseph Mitchell became its chronicler as F. Scott Fitzgerald was leaving the scene, and Mitchell's city would have absolutely none of the gauzy romantic charm of Fitzgerald's.
		Mitchell was not much for romantic charm anyhow, but in a dark time he saw and painted the city as a place with a great sweetness of character which eased the hard lives he recorded.
		This suggests that the fancies of Mitchell's colleagues tended toward the idea of "writer's block," a disease especially widespread among college students that leaves its victim's writing faculties in a state of paralysis, rendering him powerless to put words on paper for fear they may reveal he is not yet Shakespeare's equal.
	www.nybooks.com /articles/14483 (3518 words)

	Fish-eating, whiskey, death & rebirth by Christopher Carduff
		Mitchell isn’t saying so, but perhaps the sudden publication of Up in the Old Hotel is to be understood as yet another expression of his graveyard sense of humor, a sort of raspberry blown in the face of Change—and of the Reaper.
		Mitchell was born in 1908 on a cotton and tobacco farm near Fairmont, North Carolina.
		Mitchell owns a farm in Robeson County and spends more and more of each passing year there; one hears that its proceeds have, for most of his life, allowed him the leisure to do and to write as he pleases.
	www.newcriterion.com /archive/11/nov92/mitchell.htm (5211 words)

	State v. Joseph Mitchell
		Mitchell challenges the court's (Marsano, J.) denial of his motion to dismiss the indictment, contending the indictment violated the double jeopardy provisions of the Maine and the United States Constitutions.
		Both Mitchell and his wife are members of the Passamaquoddy Tribe, and their home is located on the Tribe's Pleasant Point Reservation.
		As a result of the incident, Mitchell was charged with misdemeanor assault before the Passamaquoddy Tribal Court, entered a plea of guilty at his arraignment on April 11, 1997, and was sentenced on June 30, 1997, to ten months in jail with all but four months suspended followed by one year of probation.
	www.courts.state.me.us /opinions/documents/98me128m.htm (1251 words)

	Joseph Mitchell, 2LT, Marine Corps, Alexander City AL, 30Apr67 18E125 - The Virtual Wall®
		Joseph Robert Mitchell, Jr., attended city schools and was graduated at Benjamin Russell High School in 1960, where he was an outstanding participant in all sports.
		Mitchell's 2nd Platoon was about 100 meters east of the 1st Platoon position when the NVA unloaded.
		At this point 2ndLt Mitchell was killed and his radioman severely wounded by a mortar round, and SSgt T. Meier took command of 2nd Platoon.
	www.virtualwall.org /dm/MitchellJR01a.htm (990 words)

	Joseph Mitchell - Joseph (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Joseph A. Mitchell, 24, of West Frankfort was sentenced to 14 years for unlawful possession of methamphetamine manufacturing chemicals, illegal transportation of anhydrous ammonia and unlawful chemical...
		Mitchell's intermittently moving script lacks fire in the early stretches and sometimes piles on the melodrama.
		Mitchell, 45, of Fort Walton Beach, Florida, was indicted by a federal grand jury on January 9, 2002.
	josephmitchell.flubjoseph.com (1592 words)

	JOSEPH MITCHELL NAMED REGIONAL ATTORNEY AT EEOC'S DENVER DISTRICT OFFICE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		JOSEPH MITCHELL NAMED REGIONAL ATTORNEY AT Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) Chairman Gilbert F. Casellas has announced the appointment of Joseph H. Mitchell to the position of Regional Attorney for the agency's Denver District Office.
		Mitchell will be responsible for overseeing and directing all EEOC litigation for the Denver District Office, and managing a staff of trial attorneys and legal personnel.
		Mitchell served as a staff attorney in EEOC's Chicago District Office from 1973 to 1979.
	www.eeoc.gov /press/12-6-96a.html (208 words)

	NewStandard: 5/26/96
		NEW YORK -- Joseph Mitchell, whose fondness for the eccentricities of New York life was woven into classic articles in The New Yorker on Joe Gould, McSorley's Saloon and assorted Bowery habitues, died Friday at age 87.
		Mitchell's last signed articles in The New Yorker were a two-part portrait of Joe Gould, a Greenwich Village denizen and self-described genius who claimed to be writing "An Oral History of Our Times."
		Mitchell was born July 27, 1908, on his grandparents' farm near Iona, N.C. "My family were farming people and were down there since before the Revolutionary War.
	www.s-t.com /daily/05-96/05-26-96/b04lo037.htm (526 words)

	Burr Cook's History and Genealogy page for Mitchell and Riggs Families (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Joseph TWITCHELL (Joseph TWITCHELL, Joseph TWITCHELL, Mary RIGGS, Edward) was born on 13 Feb 1718 in Sherborn, Mass..
		Joseph was a Capt in militia in 1776.
		Joseph married Deborah FAIRBANKS daughter of Capt. Eleasur FAIRBANKS and Martha BULLARD on 28 Jun 1739.
	www.burrcook.com /history/mitchell.htm (517 words)

	Encyclopedia: Joseph Mitchell
		Joseph Mitchell (July 27, 1908 - May 24, 1996) was a American writer who wrote for The New Yorker.
		Greenwich Village (often referred to as simply, The Village) is a largely residential area on the west side of downtown (southern) Manhattan in New York City.
		Roger Angell (born 19 September 1920) was a fiction editor of The New Yorker for over 40 years, and is best known for his articulate essays on baseball for that magazine.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Joseph-Mitchell (1538 words)

	Vintage
		Mitchell?s interests included the waterfront of New York City, commercial fishing, gypsies, Southern agriculture, Irish literature, and the architecture of New York City.
		He served several terms on the board of directors of the Gypsy Lore Society, an international organization of students of gypsy life and the gypsy language, which was founded in England in 1888.
		Mitchell was married to the photographer Therese Mitchell, who died in 1980; they had two daughters, Nora Sanborn and Elizabeth Mitchell.
	www.randomhouse.com /vintage/catalog/results.pperl?authorid=20880 (240 words)

	Amazon.com: Joe Gould's Secret: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Mitchell infused this first work with witticisms and anecdotes that placed Gould in a more positive light than what is revealed about the man in the second story.
		While Mitchell was able to place his dream novel on the backburner and continue life as a journalist, Gould continued to live the fantasy of the man who would someday be known as a great historian based on the jumbled dross floating around in his head.
		Mitchell's encounter with Gould is an intiguing story that carried him through the bizare behavior of a man who had a secret.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0375708049?v=glance (4064 words)

	Literary License - Defending Joseph Mitchell's composite characters. By Meghan O'Rourke
		Mitchell and other respected sometime-"fabulists"—including A.J. Liebling and Ryszard Kapuscinski—have been lightly tarred and feathered along with the fl-listed young journalists.
		Implicit in his statement is the argument that Truman Capote and New Journalists like Tom Wolfe later made in the '60s: that narrative journalism, like fiction, needs to avail itself of all possible rhetorical techniques—including inhabiting the minds of characters—for the purpose of storytelling.
		Like a novelist, Mitchell takes license with dialogue in order to dispense with some of the ancillary randomness that is part of everyday life and arrive at a more highly stylized portrait.
	www.slate.com /id/2086286 (1463 words)

	Joseph Mitchell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Reared in Southern California, Joseph Mitchell has worked in studios and concert halls throughout the Los Angeles area and is an active educator at several institutions.
		Mitchell was educated at California State University, Northridge where he studied with Karen Ervin and Joel Leach.
		Mitchell are recordings of Bernard Herrmann's film music and Night of the Mayas by Mexican composer Silvestre Revueltas with the Los Angeles Philharmonic on Sony Classical, as well as Glenn Horiuchi's Elegy for Sarajevo, on the Asian Improv label.
	www.geocities.com /blasquinte/mitchell.html (274 words)

	IPPC Application for a Permit : Joseph Mitchell (Letham) Limited ~ Energy From Waste Facility
		While there is some information specific to the proposed energy from waste plant at Joseph Mitchell (Letham) Ltd, it would not be appropriate for SEPA to answer detailed or specific questions about the application that it is currently considering.
		SEPA will be requiring Joseph Mitchell’s to undertake modelling of the emissions from the process to ensure that the ground level concentrations of the emissions do not breach the Environmental Quality Standards, standards again set by legislation based upon environmental and health criteria.
		The fact that significant investment is required by Joseph Mitchell’s only indicates that the proposed plant is technologically advanced and costs more than a plant that is less technologically advanced.
	www.sepa.org.uk /incineration/JMitchell/index.htm (2360 words)

	Reginald Joseph Mitchell
		Reginald Joseph Mitchell, born at Stoke-on-Trent, England, May 20, 1895, manifested an early interest in his life's work when, while still in high school, he designed and built model airplanes without benefit of plans or instructions.
		During the succeeding years Mitchell's design team produced consistent winners culminating in the beautiful S.6B which retired the trophy outright in 1931 and set a world speed record of 407.5 mph.
		Without question, Mitchell's crowning achievement was the marriage of the Rolls-Royce Merlin engine with his most aesthetically elegant airframe, the Spitfire, one of World War II's deadliest fighter aircraft.
	www.allstar.fiu.edu /aero/rmitchell.htm (324 words)

	scribble, scribble, scribble… » Joseph Mitchell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Flood is one of Mitchell’s grandest auto-novelizing characters.
		Mitchell wrote two profiles, one in 1942, the other in 1964, about a Greenwich Village bum named Joe Gould.
		In 1965, Dawn Powell said of the book and its author, “Joseph Mitchell is one of our finest journalists, unique in his compassion and understanding for the haunted little lost men such as Joe Gould.
	dalekeiger.com /?p=640 (1094 words)

	My Ears Are Bent - Joseph Mitchell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Comment: A Joseph Mitchell anything is worth my time, but after having read UP IN THE OLD HOTEL, other writings will suffer by comparison.
		While Mitchell's prose is sharp and illuminating, the subject matter comes off as slight compared to Mitchell's other labors.
		Mitchell had such a reputation for wanting his magazine stories to be perfect that these newspaper stories have the sense of being rushed to the presses.
	www.cdswap.ws /Content/findonamazonus-Asin-0375421033.html (292 words)

	Amazon.com: My Ears Are Bent: Books: Joseph Mitchell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		With the ability to turn bluntness to beauty, sarcasm to sincerity and plain speech to poetry, Mitchell who worked at the World-Telegram from 1930 to 1938 and spent the rest of his career at the New Yorker was a reporter and literary artist par excellence, interested in nearly everyone and everything.
		Mitchell was a cherished columnist for the now-defunct New York World-Telegram in the 1930s.
		For one thing, Mitchell was working for a newspaper when these stories were written, cranking out text at a ferocious volume, and didn't have the time to create brilliance he was later afforded at The New Yorker (to say nothing of the gem-cutting skill of New Yorker editors).
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0375421033?v=glance (1934 words)

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