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Roy Alton Blount, Jr. (; born October 4, 1941) is an American writer, speaker, reporter, and humorist. He appeared as himself in ''Treme''. He performs with the Rock Bottom Remainders, a rock band composed entirely of writers. He is also a former president of the Authors Guild. ==Life and career== Blount was born in Indianapolis, Indiana. He attended Ponce de Leon Elementary School and graduated from Decatur High School in Decatur, Georgia, where he was class president and editor of the school newspaper, ''The Scribbler''. He received the Grantland Rice Journalism Scholarship to study journalism at Vanderbilt University where he distinguished himself and was Phi Beta Kappa and graduated ''magna cum laude''. He went on to Harvard University where he received his M.A degree. Blount was a staff writer and associate editor with ''Sports Illustrated'' magazine from 1968 to 1975, and has continued to contribute to the magazine thereafter. In 2002, he narrated ''The Main Stream'', a PBS documentary about the Mississippi River. As of 2011 he is featured regularly as a panelist on the NPR news/comedy quiz show, ''Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!''. He has also been a recurring guest on ''A Prairie Home Companion''. In May 2010 he made a cameo appearance on HBO's series ''Treme'' about post-Katrina New Orleans.〔(Cameo appearance on HBO's ''Treme'' )〕 On 24 February 2009, Blount wrote an op-ed article for ''The New York Times'' explaining the Authors Guild's position demanding extra royalties from the text-to-speech functionality of the Amazon Kindle 2. To criticism from the American National Federation of the Blind, he replied that free audio availability of copyright works to the blind is provided for automatically by American copyright laws. To the criticism that the Kindle's functionality is equivalent to parents reading aloud to their children, he said that, "the Authors Guild does not expect royalties from anybody doing non-commercial performances of ''Goodnight Moon''. If parents want to send their children off to bed with the voice of Kindle 2, however, it’s another matter." Roy is married to painter Joan Griswold. 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「Roy Blount, Jr.」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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