John Joseph Brady

John Joseph Brady (born 1942) lives in Newburyport, Massachusetts. He is a visiting professor who teaches news writing and editing, as well as graphics, at the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio.^[citation needed]

Career

Brady served as editor-in-chief of Writer's Digest and Boston magazine.[1] He was founding editor of The Artist's Magazine and M:The Magazine for Montessori Families.^[citation needed] He has been teaching at universities and in various fora since the early 1990s, including a stint in 1996 as Hearst Visiting professor at the Missouri School of Journalism.

Publications

External videos
Booknotes interview with Brady on Bad Boy, February 9, 1997, C-SPAN

Brady is the author of Bad Boy: The Life and Politics of Lee Atwater.[2] He also wrote The Craft of the Screenwriter (Simon & Schuster, 1981), as well as two books for journalists – The Craft of Interviewing (Random House Vintage, 1976) and The Interviewer's Handbook (The Writer Books, 2004). He publishes a monthly column on magazine editing for Folio magazine.^[citation needed] His book Frank & Ava: In Love and War (October, 2015) retells the story of the romance between Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner.

Works

• The Craft of Interviewing (1976) ISBN 978-0394724690
• The Craft of the Screenwriter (1981) ISBN 978-0671252304
• Bad Boy: The Life and Politics of Lee Atwater (1996) ISBN 978-0201627336
• The Interviewer's Handbook (2004) ISBN 0871162059
• Frank & Ava: In Love and War (2015) ISBN 978-1250070913

References

1. "Book Review: The Interviewer's Handbook". Writers Write.
2. "BAD BOY by John Brady | Kirkus Reviews" – via www.kirkusreviews.com.

External links

• Biography at Scripps School of Journalism