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ABOUT
HENRY KISOR
Henry
Kisor is the retired book editor of the Chicago
Sun-Times as well as the author of three
nonfiction books
and three mystery novels. He is also the co-author of one
children's book.
His nonfiction
works are What's
That Pig Outdoors?: A Memoir of Deafness (1990), Zephyr: Tracking a Dream Across
America (1994) and Flight of the
Gin Fizz: Midlife at 4,500 Feet (1997).
He is the author of a series of three mystery
novels set in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, Season's
Revenge
(2003), A
Venture
into
Murder (2005) and Cache of Corpses
(2007).
His
books have been published abroad in German, Dutch and United Kingdom
editions.
He
was
the book editor of the Chicago
Sun-Times from 1978 to 2006, after five years in
the same
position with the old Chicago Daily News.
His
reviews and articles have
appeared in the New
York Times Book Review,
the Los
Angeles Times, the Washington
Post and
on MSNBC.com.
Between 1977 and 1982 he was an adjunct instructor at Northwestern
University's Medill School of Journalism. From 1983
to
1986 he wrote a weekly syndicated column on personal computers that
appeared in the Chicago
Sun-Times,
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, Orlando
Sentinel, Seattle
Times
and
other newspapers.
He was
named a finalist for the Pulitzer
Prize for Criticism in 1981. The Friends of
Literature
awarded him the first James Friend Memorial Critic Award in 1988 and
the Chicago Foundation for Literature Award for Nonfiction in 1991
for What's That
Pig Outdoors? In 2001 he was inducted into the Chicago
Journalism Hall of Fame.
Educated
at Trinity
College (B.A., 1962) in Hartford, Conn., and at Northwestern
University (M.S.J., 1964) in Evanston, Ill.,
Kisor began his
newspaper career in 1964 with the Evening
Journal in Wilmington, Del.
He winters
in Evanston, Illinois, and summers in Ontonagon, Michigan, with his
wife, Deborah
Abbott. They have two grown sons, Colin, an attorney
and
naval officer on active duty (m. Melody Pershyn),
and Conan, a
medical association editor (m. Annie Tully). They also have
two
grandsons, William Henry Kisor and Conan Emmet Kisor; one
granddaughter, Elizabeth Maria Kisor, and one boisterous Lab mix,
Hogan.
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