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Neal Pollack (born March 1, 1970) is an American satirist, novelist, short story writer, and journalist. He lives in Austin, Texas. Pollack has written ten books: ''The Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature'', ''Never Mind the Pollacks'', ''Beneath the Axis of Evil'', ''Alternadad,'' ''Stretch,'' ''Jewball'', ''Downward-Facing Death'',''Open Your Heart,'' ''Repeat,'' and ''Keep Mars Weird''. He is also a three-time ''Jeopardy!'' champion. ==Career== Pollack's eccentric literary career has seen many highs and lows since he burst into literary fame with the publication of his first book in 2000, a journey that was chronicled in a far-reaching confessional interview () with The Onion newspaper in May 2013. After graduating from Northwestern University's Medill School Of Journalism, Pollack worked as a staff reporter for the ''Chicago Reader'' from 1993 to 2000, covering Chicago city politics and writing profiles of urban eccentrics. Meanwhile, he performed with various improv comedy troupes around Chicago, including ImprovOlympic (where he studied with Del Close) and the Free Associates. After Dave Eggers's magazine ''McSweeney's'' began publishing his work, Pollack began appearing in shows with Eggers, John Hodgman, Sarah Vowell, Zadie Smith, David Byrne, Arthur Bradford, They Might Be Giants, M. Doughty, and many others before parting ways with ''McSweeney's'' in 2003. Pollack wrote a political satire column for ''Vanity Fair'', and the "Bad Sex With Neal Pollack" column for Nerve.com. His freelance journalism has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Esquire, Men's Journal, GQ, Slate, Salon, and many other publications. One of his Slate.com articles was featured in the Best American Sportswriting collection of 2006. His satirical online take down () of James Frey was named one of the "Top 26 Cultural Moments Of The Decade" by Slate cultural critic Troy Patterson. In 2007, Pollack started Offsprung.com, a humor magazine and web community for parents. He writes features about technology for the American and British editions of Wired as well as Popular Mechanics and contributes frequent car reviews and auto-culture features to the Autos page of Yahoo.com. He also writes features about marijuana culture for The Cannabist, published by The Denver Post, and regularly writes articles about yoga. In June 2010, Pollack completed a 200-hour yoga teacher's certification course at Richard Freeman's Yoga Workshop in Boulder, Colorado, and he teaches yoga at conferences and studios around the country. In September 2013, Pollack appeared on the quiz show ''Jeopardy!,'' winning more than $62,000 in his four-game run, enough to qualify him for the ''Jeopardy!'' Hall of Fame. 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「Neal Pollack」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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