Illinois Authors

David Friend

Born: 1955 in Chicago, Illinois
Pen Name: None

Connection to Illinois: He was born in Chicago, Illinois and graduated from Amherst College. He attended Highland Park High School in Illinois and is a lifelong Chicago Cubs fan.

Biography: Friend is a publishing executive, correspondent, curator, writer, editor, and poet. He is Vanity Fair's editor of creative development and lives in New Rochelle, New York. As a correspondent, he has covered conflicts in many parts of the world like Afghanistan and Lebanon. As an editor, Friend broke the “Deep Throat” story in 2005, revealing that Mark Felt was Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein’s secret Watergate source. As a writer, he has contributed frequently to ''Vanity Fair'', ''American Photo'', and The Digital Journalist Web site. His humorous articles and cartoons have appeared in ''The Washington Post'', ''Discover'', ''The Common Review'' and ''Salon.com''. His poetry has appeared in ''The New Yorker''. He has edited ''The Meaning of Life'' and ''More Reflections on the Meaning of Life''. With Graydon Carter, Friend edited Vanity Fair's ''Hollywood'', ''Oscar Night'' and ''Vanity Fair, The Portraits''. As a curator, he has mounted exhibitions for the International Center of Photography, the United Nations and the Newseum as well as other venues. Friend created the Alfred Eisenstaedt Awards for Magazine Photography under the auspices of Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, coordinators of the Pulitzer Prizes.

Primary Literary Genre(s): Non-Fiction; Poetry

Email: dfriend@davidfriend.net
David Friend on WorldCat : http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=david+friend

Selected Titles

	Baseball, football, Daddy, and me / ISBN: 0140509143 OCLC: 24319673 Puffin Books, New York : 1992. A little boy and his father enjoy a full assortment of sporting events together.
	Watching the world change : ISBN: 0312426763 OCLC: 148294262 Picador ; New York : 2007. Tells the stories behind the photographs of 9/11, discusses the controversy over whether the images are exploitative or redemptive, and shows how photographs help us witness, grieve, and understand the unimaginable.