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Mike Sager (born 1956) is a bestselling author and award-winning journalist. He has been called "the Beat poet of American journalism, that rare reporter who can make literature out of shabby reality."〔Walt Harrington, Dean, College of Media, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign〕 For more than eighteen years he has been a Writer-at-Large for ''Esquire''.〔http://www.esquire.com/features/contributors/mike-sager-1008?click=main_sr〕 In 2010 he won the American Society of Magazine Editors' National Magazine award for profile writing for his story "The Man Who Never Was," which appeared in ''(Esquire. )''〔http://articles.latimes.com/2004/feb/29/books/bk-papersellers29〕 A former ''Washington Post'' staff writer and ''Rolling Stone'' contributing editor, Sager has made a career chronicling the dark underbelly of the American scene and psyche. His first collection, ''Scary Monsters and Super Freaks'', (2003), was a ''Los Angeles Times'' bestseller,〔http://articles.latimes.com/2004/feb/29/books/bk-papersellers29〕 as was his second, ''Revenge of the Donut Boys'', published in 2007. His first novel, ''Deviant Behavior'', was published by Grove/Atlantic's Black Cat in April 2008. A third collection, ''Wounded Warriors'', was published in October 2008 and received the Military Writers Society of America Founder's Award and the American Author's Association Golden Quill Award.〔http://www.mwsadispatches.com/node/286〕〔http://www.americanauthorsassociation.com/awards.htm〕 ''Tattoos & Tequila: To Hell and Back with One of Rock's Most Notorious Frontmen,'' with Vince Neil, published in September 2010, was a ''New York Times'' best seller.〔http://www.nytimes.com/best-sellers-books/2010-10-10/hardcover-nonfiction/list.html〕 His fourth collection, ''The Someone You're Not,'' was published by The Sager Group in October 2012, as was ''Next Wave: America's New Generation of Great Literary Journalists,'' edited with Walt Harrington. His second novel, ''High Tolerance,'' was published by The Sager Group in May 2013.''The Devil and John Holmes-25th Anniversary Author's Edition: And Other True Stories of Drugs, Porn and Murder,'' was published in 2014.''Stoned Again: The High Times and Strange Life of a Drugs Correspondent,'' was published by Byliner Selects in 2015. ==Early life== Sager was born in Charlottesville, Virginia, on August 17, 1956, to Beverly Rosenberg and Marvin Miles Sager—who hailed, respectively, from Culpeper and Fredericksburg, Virginia. Eventually the family, along with younger sister Wendy, would settle in Baltimore, Maryland. Mike graduated from Pikesville High School in 1974. At Emory University he played varsity soccer; served as president of his fraternity, Tau Epsilon Phi; was selected to Phi Beta Kappa; and was an editor of several school publications, including the college's literary magazine and weekly newspaper, (The Emory ''Wheel,' )' where he served under (Henry Schuster ), a lifelong friend who would go on to become an award-winning producer at CNN and CBS ''60 Minutes'' During his senior year at Emory, Sager studied creative writing with the noted author and jazz historian Albert Murray, who would have a profound influence on his writing style, introducing the notions of rhythm and music in the context of prose. That year he also interned at the alternative weekly ''Creative Loafing'', his first taste of professional journalism. He received his BA in history in June 1978. That fall, Sager moved to Washington, D.C. and began attending Georgetown University Law Center. He quit after three weeks to pursue a career in writing. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mike Sager」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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