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About Dave Isay

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

David Isay is the founder of StoryCorps and its parent company, Sound Portraits Productions. Over the past two decades his radio documentary work has won nearly every award in broadcasting, including five Peabody awards. David has also received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a MacArthur Fellowship, and a United States Artists Fellowship. He is the author (or coauthor) of numerous books based on Sound Portraits’ radio stories, including Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago and Flophouse. He and his wife, Jennifer Gonnerman, live in Brooklyn.

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Mom by David Isay
Call Number: HQ759 .M842 2010 Special Collections
Publication Date: 2010-04-15
Selecting StoryCorps' most revelatory stories on the subject, "Mom" looks across a diversity of experience--from the Bronx to the rural South and beyond--to present an entirely original portrait of motherhood
Listening Is an Act of Love by Dave Isay (Editor, Introduction by)
Call Number: E169.Z8 L49 2008
Publication Date: 2008-10-28
From more than ten thousand interviews, StoryCorps--the largest oral history project in the nation's history--presents a tapestry of American stories, told by the people who lived them to the people they love. StoryCorps began with the idea that everyone has an important story to tell. And since 2003, this remarkable project has been collecting the stories of everyday Americans from all ages, backgrounds, and walks of life and preserving them for future generations.
Milton Rogovin by David Isay; Milton Rogovin; David Miller; Harvey Wang
Call Number: TR681.P6 R64 2003
Publication Date: 2003-06-17
The Forgotten Ones is a celebration of Rogovin's life's work, published in conjunction with an exhibit at the New-York Historical Society. A foreword by Dave Isay and afterword by photographer Harvey Wang pay tribute to Milton Rogovin's remarkable courage, integrity, and persistence.
Reality Radio, Second Edition by John Biewen (Editor); Alexa Dilworth (Editor)
Call Number: PN1991.8.D63 R43 2017eb
Publication Date: 2017-02-13
Celebrates today's best audio documentary work by bringing together some of the most influential and innovative practitioners from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia through a collection of essays. Dave Isay's Essay is, "Diaries and detritus: one perfectionist's search for imperfection."

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About Dave Isay

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