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MURRAY KEMPTON was born in 1917 and raised in the Mount Vernon neighborhood of Baltimore. He spent much of his career as a columnist for The New York Post and, later, New York Newsday. He wrote regularly for The New York Review of Books and contributed journalism, essays, and criticism to publications including The Progressive, Esquire, Rolling Stone, and The New Republic, where he worked briefly as an editor. He wrote two books- Part of Our Time- Some Ruins and Monuments of the Thirties (1955) and The Briar Patch- The People of New York vs. Lumumba Shakur, et al. (1973), which won a National Book Award. His other distinctions include two George Polk awards; the inaugural Sidney Hillman Prize; a Grammy for his contribution to the liner notes of a Frank Sinatra boxed set; and the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1985. He died in New York City in 1997. ANDREW HOLTER (b. 1990) is a historian and writer based in Chicago, formerly of Frederick, Maryland, and Baltimore. His work has appeared in The Times Literary Supplement, Rolling Stone, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Brooklyn Rail, Lapham's Quarterly, and other publications. As an independent historical researcher, he has contributed to books, radio programs, and museum exhibitions, and served as the primary archival consultant for Theo Anthony's 2016 documentary Rat Film, which the New Yorker called one of ""62 Films That Shaped the Art of Documentary Filmmaking.""
""All we journalists were in awe of Murray, not simply because he knew more than we did, but because he could do more with what he knew. How I miss him.""—Garry Wills, author of Lincoln at Gettysburg ""This is a vital collection for all who remain committed to journalism as an art form. Just as splendidly as it did decades ago, Kempton's writing reminds us of all this medium can and must continue to do."" —Osita Nwanevu, contributing editor at The New Republic and columnist at The Guardian ""When and if the dust finally settles on the American Century, Murray Kempton will prove to have been one of its greatest writers: almost miraculously immersed in every region, profession, political movement, and social class, he leaves behind a body of work whose range (seven decades!) and moral ambition seem nothing short of majestic. This new anthology rescues him from a pile of clippings and lets his voice ring out even more clearly than it did during his life.""—Benjamin Moser, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Sontag: Her Life and Work ""Murray Kempton wrote stately, measured prose in the tradition of Gibbon and Macauley, and within hours of publication it was used to wrap fish. He was also one of the great moral witnesses of his time, there on the sidewalk for 60-odd years, bringing his gimlet eye and sense of justice and solidarity—formed by his Episcopalian-bishop forebears and the IWW—to bear through the darkest and most hopeful times of the late twentieth century. I'm very happy there is at last a representative selection of his work, with a moving introductory portrait by Darryl Pinckney to put flesh on the bones.""—Lucy Sante, author of I Heard Her Call My Name ""Murray Kempton is a reference point for an entire era of American journalism. Erudite, slyly comic and consistently elegant, his work chronicled the high, the low and the salient points in between. Going Around is a compendium of the scribe at his finest—an illustration of how the adjective 'Kemptonian' came to be synonymous with high praise."" —Jelani Cobb, dean of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
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