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I was probably being a little cocky, which I do when I feel that I don't know what I'm talking about.
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Birth: | 2nd April, 1948 |
Nationality: | American |
Profession: | Editor, Writer |
Daniel Okrent was born in Detroit, Michigan. He is an American writer and editor. He is best known for having served as the first public editor of The New York Times newspaper, for inventing Rotisserie League Baseball, and for writing several books, most recently Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition, which served as a major source for the 2011 Ken Burns/Lynn Novick miniseries Prohibition. In November 2011, Last Call won the Albert J. Beveridge prize, awarded by the American Historical Association to the year's best book of American history. His book Great Fortune: The Epic of Rockefeller Center was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for History.
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