Samuel G. Freedman papers, 1995-2025
Collection context
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- 3.75 Linear Feet (3 rsc)
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- English
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Samuel G. Freedman is an American author, journalist, and longtime professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
Before publishing his first book in 1990 and gaining his professorship at Columbia University, Freedman was a staff reporter for the culture section of The New York Times. Freedman has authored multiple nonfiction books, including Who She Was: A Son's Search for His Mother's Life,Jew vs. Jew: The Struggle for the Soul of American Jewry, The Inheritance: How Three Families Moved from Roosevelt to Reagan and Beyond, and Hubert Humphrey, Into the Bright Sunshine.
For 35 years, from 1991 to 2025, Freedman taught the legendary Book Writing Seminar at Columbia Journalism School. The course, which offered an immersive training in all aspects of nonfiction book writing and the publishing industry, directly led to 113 book contracts and 95 published books, out of the 675 or so people who took it.
The collection consists primarily of cassettes and papers relating to guest speakers and events connected to Freedman's Book Writing Seminar at the Columbia Journalism School.
[Adapted from Wikipedia]
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