Mitchell Zuckoff

Mitchell S. Zuckoff
Occupation(s)Professor, Author
Websitehttps://www.mitchellzuckoff.com/
Mitchell Zuckoff

Mitchell S. Zuckoff is an American professor of communications at Boston University. His books include Lost in Shangri-La and 13 Hours (2014).

Education

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Zuckoff received a bachelor's degree from the University of Rhode Island and a master's degree from the University of Missouri. He was a Batten Fellow at the Darden School of Business Administration at the University of Virginia.[1]

Career

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Zuckoff was a special projects reporter and a member of the Globe Spotlight Team at the Boston Globe newspaper.[1] He was appointed as a professor in Boston University’s College of Communication, and in 2014, was named the first Sumner N Redstone Professor of Narrative Studies at Boston University.[2] He is the author of eight non-fiction books.[1]

Books

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13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened In Benghazi (2014) was co-written with the surviving members of the security team involved in the 2012 Benghazi attack on the U.S. consulate.[3] It tells the story of the terrorist attack from the perspective of the security team, without discussing later political controversies.[3]

Frozen in Time: An Epic Story of Survival and a Modern Quest for Lost Heroes of World War II (2013) is about a U.S. military airplane that crashed on the Greenland glacier during World War II, the subsequent hunt for the plane, and Zuckoff's role in helping to find the plane buried in the ice decades later.[4]

Lost in Shangri-La: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II (2011) is about a US military airplane called "The Gremlin Special", which crashed on May 13, 1945, in New Guinea, and the subsequent rescue of the survivors.[5] Lost in Shangri-La won the Laurence L. & Thomas Winship/PEN New England Award and spent several months on The New York Times Best Seller list.[6]

His earlier books include Robert Altman: The Oral Biography, Ponzi’s Scheme: The True Story of a Financial Legend, and Choosing Naia: A Family's Journey. He is co-author with Dick Lehr of Judgment Ridge: The True Story Behind the Dartmouth Murders.

Zuckoff's magazine work has appeared in The New Yorker, Fortune, and elsewhere.

As of 2019, ABC was developing a documentary adaptation of his novel Fall and Rise: The Story of 9/11 to commemorate the anniversary.[7]

Awards and honors

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As a reporter at The Boston Globe, Zuckoff received the Distinguished Writing Award from the American Society of Newspaper Editors,[8] the Livingston Award for International Reporting (1995),[9] the Heywood Broun Award, and the Associated Press Managing Editors' Public Service Award.[citation needed]

Publications

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  • 2019 Fall and Rise: The Story of 9/11[10]
  • 2014 13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened In Benghazi, ISBN 1455582271
  • 2013 Frozen in Time: An Epic Story of Survival and a Modern Quest for Lost Heroes of World War II, ISBN 0062133438
  • 2011 Lost in Shangri-La: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II, ISBN 0061988340
  • 2009 Robert Altman: The Oral Biography, ISBN 0307267687[11][12]
  • 2005 Ponzi's Scheme: The True Story of a Financial Legend, ISBN 1400060397[13]
  • 2003 with Dick Lehr: Judgment Ridge: The True Story Behind the Dartmouth Murders, ISBN 0060008458[14]
  • 2002 Choosing Naia: A Family's Journey, ISBN 0807028169[15][16]

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Mitchell Zuckoff". www.bu.edu. Boston University. Retrieved October 2, 2024.
  2. ^ Corpuz, Mina (March 9, 2015). "COM professor named first Sumner N. Professor of Narrative Studies". dailyfreepress.com. Boston University. Retrieved October 2, 2024.
  3. ^ a b "Zuckoff Chronicles Benghazi Attack in 13 Hours | BU Today". Boston University. September 9, 2014. Retrieved December 3, 2024.
  4. ^ William Theissen (September 24, 2018). "The Last of the Coast Guard's MIAs". Maritime Executive. Archived from the original on February 8, 2019. Retrieved February 8, 2019. The burial of the aircraft under seventy years of snowfall and the movement of the ice in which it is embedded have hampered these search efforts. The story of Pritchard and Bottoms and the attempts to find them served as the focus of the 2013 bestseller book "Frozen in Time" by Mitchell Zuckoff. In 2014, the Coast Guard Academy inducted Pritchard into its Hall of Heroes while Bottoms has been honored as the namesake for a new Fast Response Cutter.
  5. ^ "A WWII Survival Epic Unfolds Deep In 'Shangri-La'". npr.org.
  6. ^ Jr, Mike Fleming (December 2, 2019). "Elizabeth Gabler's 3000 Film Label Gets 'Lost In Shangri-La'". Deadline. Retrieved December 3, 2024.
  7. ^ Harris, Hunter (August 5, 2019). "ABC to Mark 20th Anniversary of 9/11 With Limited Series". Vulture. Retrieved April 23, 2021.
  8. ^ "ASNE Awards 2000". members.newsleaders.org. Retrieved November 30, 2024.
  9. ^ "Past Winners". Wallace House Center for Journalists. Retrieved November 30, 2024.
  10. ^ Slane, Kevin (January 17, 2017). "Former Globe reporter's new book is a 'comprehensive' story of 9/11". www.boston.com. Retrieved October 2, 2024.
  11. ^ WorldCat listing for book. Worldcat.org. OCLC 299707529.
  12. ^ Review, by David Thomson in The New Republic (October 21, 2009): 53–55; Review, by Nathaniel Rich, The New York Review of Books. 57, no. 4, (2010): 29; Review, by Mark Harris The New York Times book review. (November 8, 2009): 29
  13. ^ Discussed on video,: C-SPAN Archives, 2005.; Review, by D Margolick The New York Times Book Review. 110, no. 15, (April 10, 2005): 19–24.
  14. ^ Judgment Ridge : the true story behind the Dartmouth murders (Book, 2003). WorldCat.org. December 6, 2007. OCLC 51755841.
  15. ^ Choosing Naia : a family's journey (Book, 2002). [WorldCat.org]. January 17, 2011. OCLC 49750319.
  16. ^ Review, by M. Jones The New York Times Book Review, 107, Part 50 (2002): 26
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