The journalistic profile is one of the most popular, widely read
types of magazine feature writing. Helen Benedict, a master of the
genre, has collected for "Portraits in Print" nine of her best
pieces, and provided a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the
art of portrait journalism.
Among the persons profiled here are Joseph Brodsky, Isaac
Bashevis Singer, Susan Sontag, Paule Marshall, Bernard Malamud, and
Beverly Sills. In a general introduction and in lively discussions
after each profile, Helen Benedict describes how she selected the
subjects, got them to agree to be interviewed, convinced the
magazines' editor's to assign her the pieces, prepared for the
interviews, and set about writing each one after the research and
interviewing were complete. Benedict also discusses how much
confidence to betray, how personal to get, what to leave out, and
the writer's power over the profile subject. This is fascinating
reading, especially for aspiring writers who hope to learn more
about the skills and practices of this popular genre.
"Portraits in Print" concludes with an Afterward by the famous
muckraker and author of "The American Way of Death," Jessica
Mitford. Mitford takes the opposite tack, in an amusing essay about
what it is like to be an interviewee.
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