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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.
He is the author of a series of mystery
novels set in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, Season's
Revenge
(2003), A
Venture
into
Murder (2005) and Cache of Corpses
(2007).
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).
His
books have been published abroad in German, Dutch and United Kingdom
editions.
He writes two blogs, The
Reluctant Blogger and The Whodunit
Photographer.
He
was
the book editor of the Chicago
Sun-Times from 1978 to his retirement in 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 with the
U.S. Department of Justice (m. Melody Pershyn),
and Conan, a corporate communications editor and writer for
the Boeing Company (m. Annie
Tully). They also have
two
grandsons, William Henry Kisor and Conan Emmet Kisor; two
granddaughters, Elizabeth Maria Kisor and Alice Flynn Kisor, and one
boisterous Lab mix,
Hogan.
(11/2008)
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