Bill zehme biography
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Bill Zehme
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Bill Zehme is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Way You Wear Your Hat: Frank Sinatra and the Lost Art of Livin'. Recognized among the nation's more unique interpreters of popular culture, he is a longtime writer at large for Esquire, and his impressionistic profiles have appeared in Rolling Stone, Playboy, and Vanity Fair. During the six years of research for Lost in the Funhouse, he served as supervising producer of the network television retrospective Taxi: A Celebration and consulting producer of the NBC-TV special A Comedy Salute to Andy Kaufman. He lives in Chicago.
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Series
Books:
Lost in the Funhouse, JanuaryPaperback
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My decades-long friendship with Bill Zehme began as a professional partnership. In the fall of , after discovering that the renowned profile writer had moved back to Chicago from Los Angeles, I found his address, wrote him a letter, and mailed it with some of my very best (in retrospect, very amateurish) freelance clips. I’d been reading his work since high school, in Rolling Stone and then Esquire, and I asked if he’d meet with me to impart his writerly wisdom. To my surprise and delight, he agreed.
Not long after we linked up and hit it off, I began helping him streamline and organize transcripts for a memoir he was working on with Jay Leno. Eventually, that morphed into a gig as Bill’s first-ever research assistant — “legman” in crusty journo parlance. Over the next few years, we worked together on an homage to Frank Sinatra and a biography of the late comic-provocateur Andy Kaufman, among other collaborations. Every project was different, but with a common thread: Bill’
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Bill Zehme
American author (–)
Bill Zehme (October 28, – March 26, ) was an American author who was known for his writing on music and popular culture. He collaborated on books with such celebrities as Regis Philbin, Jay Leno, and Hugh Hefner. His articles appeared in Rolling Stone, Esquire, Playboy, and Vanity Fair.[1][2][3][4] He won a National Magazine award in for his profile of newspaper columnist Bob Greene.[3]
Early life and education
[edit]Zehme grew up in South Holland, Illinois, attending Thornwood High School and graduating from Loyola University in [5]
Work
[edit]Zehme's first book, written with Bonnie Schiffman, was 's The Rolling Stone Book of Comedy. Five years later, Zehme conducted the last major interview of Frank Sinatra’s life, publishing a piece in Esquire's March issue on Sinatra and the Rat Pack ("And Then There Was One").[6] This he extended to a full-length bo