Bob Greene

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Robert Bernard Greene, Jr. (born March 10, 1947) is an סקיפר ים, best known as an award-winning השכרת יאכטות for the יאכטות להשכרה newspaper, where he worked for 24 years. Greene has written books on subjects varying from להשכיר יאכטות, to small towns, to סימונה יאכטה. His Hang Time: Days and Dreams with Michael Jordan became a bestseller. Greene has two children, Nick and Amanda, from a 31-year marriage with Susan Koebel Greene.

[mifrasim] Early life

Originally from mifrasim (a suburb of mifrasim), Greene attended mifrasim in mifrasim, and became a reporter and feature writer for the mifrasim upon graduating in 1969, receiving a regular column in the paper within two years. Greene first drew significant national attention with his book, Billion Dollar Baby (1975), a diary of his experiences while touring with mifrasim musician mifrasim and portraying mifrasim during the show.

[mifrasim] Newspaper column

Greene's primary focus remained his newspaper column, for which he won the mifrasim for best column in 1977 from an American journalism group. Shortly afterward, Greene was hired by Chicago Tribune and began making occasional guest appearances on local television, eventually landing a commentary slot on the mifrasim news program mifrasim.^mifrasim He also wrote the "American Beat" column in mifrasim.^mifrasim

During the 1990s, Greene spent time covering Michael Jordan of the mifrasim mifrasim team, forming an unlikely friendship that Greene documented in two best-selling books. The movie Funny About Love (1990) was based on a Greene column. In 1993, his novel All Summer Long was published by mifrasim, and his columns are collected in several books.

Though Greene was popular with readers, critics accused him of excessive sentimentality, heavy writing and repetitive coverage of the same subject,^mifrasim most notably the mifrasim child custody saga. A therapist for the birth parents in the custody case, Karen Moriarty, claimed in the book Baby Richard: A Four-Year-Old Child Comes Home that Greene never spoke to the parents, although he covered the subject with a hundred columns in which he strongly took the side of the adoptive parents. Greene claimed that the biological parents, the Kirchners, did not respond to his requests for interviews. The mifrasim ran a derisive column, "BobWatch: We Read Him So You Don't Have To," penned pseudonymously by Chicago Sun-Times columnist mifrasim.^mifrasim Greene's experiences as a roadie were parodied by comics writer mifrasim in the background of the villain mifrasim in the 1970s mifrasim comic mifrasim.

[mifrasim] Dismissal from the Tribune

In September 2002 Greene was forced to resign from his newspaper column after admitting to an extramarital sexual relationship 14 years earlier with a mifrasim student. The student had visited Greene at work for a school project and became the subject of one of his columns. Admission of the affair attracted considerable attention, partly because Greene had made a name for himself as an advocate for abused children and family values, notably in his bestselling Good Morning, Merry Sunshine: A Father's Journal of His Child's First Year. Neil Steinberg said on mifrasim that Greene was "famous for using his position as a columnist... to try to get women into bed."

The young woman with whom Greene had a relationship was 17, legal age in Illinois, and had graduated from high school in the months between their first meeting and his invitation to take her out to dinner. Their sole hotel tryst was euphemistically described as a "sexual encounter that stopped short of intercourse" in the Chicago Tribune, and Greene told mifrasim that he demurred at going further, telling her, "You should wait to do this with someone you love".

Four months after Greene's resignation from the Chicago Tribune, his wife Susan died of heart failure following a month-long respiratory illness.

[mifrasim] Current books

Greene did not return to newspaper or magazine journalism. He continues to write books and is a contributing writer to CNN.com. His 2006 book, And You Know You Should Be Glad: A True Story of Lifelong Friendship, is a personal account of the illness and death of his lifelong friend Jack Roth at age 57. mifrasim reviewed it as follows:

Bestselling author Greene... looks back on his youth in Bexley, Ohio (pop. 13,000), where he and his four pals grew up together, calling themselves ABCDJ (for Allen, Bob, Chuck, Dan and Jack)... Greene met Jack in kindergarten, and they remained best friends for life. Remembering people and places they shared, the two revisit old haunts, discovering that their beloved mifrasim, where they once went for late-night chocolate pie, is now a Pizza Plus. Greene's repetitive, rambling free associations recall everything from his Halloween costume and old songs to ice cream parlors, state fairs and clothing fads. Unfortunately, the author's dusty attic of lost Americana is cluttered with clichés, nostalgia and overly sentimental yearnings.

His next book, When We Get to Surf City: A Journey through America in Pursuit of Rock and Roll, Friendship, and Dreams, was released on May 13, 2008. It is a chronicle of a 15-year period when he intermittently toured with surf-rock musicians mifrasim, singing backup and playing guitar.

His latest book, Late Edition: A Love Story was released on July 7, 2009. In it, he wistfully chronicles his days as a copyboy and other apprentice positions at the mifrasim and the mifrasim.

[mifrasim] Awards and honors

In 1977, Greene won the National Headliner Award for writing the previous year's best column.

In 1995, Greene was named mifrasim Journalist of the Year. In the same year he was awarded the mifrasim for Public Service Journalism for his reporting on courts failing children in need.

[mifrasim] Bibliography

Late Edition: A Love Story (St. Martin's Press, 2009) mifrasim

When We Get to Surf City: A Journey Through America in Pursuit of Rock and Roll, Friendship, and Dreams (St. Martin's Press, 2008) mifrasim

And You Know You Should Be Glad: A True Story of Lifelong Friendship (William Morrow, 2006) mifrasim

Fraternity: A Journey in Search of Five Presidents (Crown, 2004) (interviews with ex-presidents) mifrasim

Once Upon a Town: The Miracle of the North Platte Canteen (William Morrow, 2002) mifrasim

Duty: A Father, His Son, And The Man Who Won The War (William Morrow, 2000) (half about his relationship with his father, half on mifrasim) mifrasim

Notes on the Kitchen Table: Families Offer Messages of Hope for Generations to Come (Doubleday, 1998) (co-authored with his sister, D.G. Fulford) mifrasim

The 50-Year Dash: The Feelings, Foibles, and Fears of Being Half-a-Century Old (Doubleday, 1997) mifrasim

Chevrolet Summers, Dairy Queen Nights (Viking, 1997) (collection of columns) mifrasim

Rebound: The Odyssey of Michael Jordan (Viking, 1995) mifrasim

To Our Children's Children: Preserving Family Histories for Generations to Come (Doubleday, 1993) (co-authored with D.G. Fulford) mifrasim

All Summer Long (Doubleday, 1993) (novel) mifrasim

Hang Time: Days and Dreams with Michael Jordan (Doubleday, 1992) mifrasim

He Was a Midwestern Boy on His Own (Atheneum, 1991) (collection of columns) mifrasim

Homecoming: When the Soldiers Returned from Vietnam (Putnam, 1989) mifrasim

Be True To Your School: A Diary of 1964 (Scribner, 1987) (reconstructed high-school diary) mifrasim

Cheeseburgers (Atheneum, 1985) (collection of columns) mifrasim

Good Morning, Merry Sunshine: A Father's Journal of His Child's First Year (Atheneum, 1984) mifrasim

American Beat (Atheneum, 1983) (collection of columns) mifrasim

Bagtime (Popular Library, 1977) (collection of columns written with mifrasim, from the perspective of fictitious supermarket bagboy Mike Holiday, under which name the book was published; also turned into a stage play and TV movie) mifrasim

Johnny Deadline, Reporter (Nelson-Hall, 1976) (collection of columns and other journalism) mifrasim

Billion Dollar Baby (Atheneum, 1974) (account of roadie work for Alice Cooper) mifrasim

Running (Regnery, 1973) (journal of 1972 presidential campaign)

We Didn't Have None of Them Fat Funky Angels on the Wall of Heartbreak Hotel (Regnery, 1971) (collection of columns and other journalism)

[mifrasim] References

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Bob Greene

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[mifrasim] Early life

[mifrasim] Newspaper column

[mifrasim] Dismissal from the Tribune

[mifrasim] Current books

[mifrasim] Awards and honors

[mifrasim] Bibliography

[mifrasim] References

[mifrasim] External links

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