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Communication & Journalism

Resources for Journalism, Communication, and Media Studies

Featured Biographies

Below are a list of recommended biographies that are available at the library. You can use the search box below to search for others. You will see that most of the biographies have call numbers that start with PN4874. That means they are shelved together under the P call number range which is on the 4th floor of the Main Stacks.

All the President’s Men by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward
Call Number: Main Library Stacks E860 .B47
Behind the Lines: The World of Drew Pearson by Klurfeld, Herman
Call Number: Main Library Stacks PN4874.P38 K57
The Boys on the Bus. by Crouse, Timothy.
Call Number: Main Library Stacks E859 .C76
Citizen Hearst: A Biography of William Randolph Hearst by Swanberg, W. A.
Call Number: Main Library Stacks PN4874.H4 S83
Damon Runyon by Jimmy Breslin
Call Number: Main Library Stacks PS3535.U52 Z57 1991
Deadline: A Memoir by James Reston
Call Number: Main Library Stacks PN4874.R447 A3 1991
Edward R. Murrow and the Birth of Broadcast Journalism by Bob Edwards
Call Number: Main Library Stacks PN4874 .M89 E38 2004
Front Row at the White House: My Life and Times by Helen Thomas
Call Number: Main Library Stacks PN4874 .T424 A3 1999
The Kingdom and the Power by Talese, Gay
Call Number: Main Library Stacks PN4899.N42 T574
A Long Way from Home: Growing Up in the American Heartland by Tom Brokaw
Call Number: Main Library Stacks PN4874 .B717 A3 2002
Margaret Fuller’s New York Journalism: A Biographical Essay and Key Writings by Edited by Catherine C. Mitchell
Call Number: Main Library Stacks PS2502 .M56

ISBN: 0870498703
Mencken: The American Iconoclast by Marion Elizabeth Rodgers
Call Number: Main Library Stacks PS3525 .E43 Z79 2005
Nobody Asked Me, But ... : The world of Jimmy Cannon by Edited by Jack Cannon & Tom Cannon
Call Number: Main Library Stacks GV583 .C36
Of Spies and Spokesmen: My Life as a Cold War Correspondent by Nicholas Daniloff
Call Number: Main Library Stacks PN4874 .D353 A3 2008
Once Upon a Distant War by William Prochnau
Call Number: Main Library Stacks DS558 .P75 1995
The Paper: The Life and Death of the New York Herald Tribune by Richard Kluger with the assistance of Phyllis Kluger
Call Number: Main Library Stacks PN4899.N42 N355
The Prince of Darkness: 50 Years Reporting in Washington by Robert D. Novak
Call Number: Main Library Stacks PN4874 .N68 A3 2007

ISBN: 1400051991
Pulitzer by W. A. Swanberg
Call Number: Main Library Stacks PN4874.P8 S9
Red: A Biography of Red Smith by Ira Berkow
Call Number: Main Library Stacks GV742.42.S54 B46 1986
A Reporter’s Life by Walter Cronkite
Call Number: Main Library Stacks PN4874.C84 A3 1996
Scotty: James B. Reston and the Rise and Fall of American Journalism by John F. Stacks
Call Number: Main Library Stacks PN4874 .R447 S76 2003
Staying Tuned: A Life in Journalism by Daniel Schorr
Call Number: Main Library Stacks PN4874 .S335 A7 2001
This Just In: What I Couldn’t Tell You on TV by Bob Schieffer
Call Number: Main Library Stacks PN4874 .S32 A3 2003
Winchell: Gossip, Power, and the Culture of Celebrity by Neal Gabler
Call Number: Main Library Stacks PN4874.W67 G33 1994

Main Stacks Location Guide

Call Number	Floor
A - E	2nd floor
F - N	3rd floor
P	4th floor
Q - Z	3rd floor

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