Josh Karp (born October 22, 1966) is an American journalist and author. He lives in suburban Chicago, Illinois, with his wife, Susan, and their four sons.
Josh Karp | |
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| Born | October 22, 1966 |
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| Nationality | American |
| Spouse | Susan |
| Children | 4 |
A journalist, writer and film producer. His first book, A Futile and Stupid Gesture, won best biography at both the Independent Publisher Book Awards and Midwest Book Awards in 2006. It was adapted into a film of the same name, starring Will Forte, for Netflix in 2018. He is also the author of Straight Down the Middle: Shivas Irons, Bagger Vance and How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love My Golf Swing and Orson Welles's Last Movie: The Making of The Other Side of the Wind.[1]
Karp served as moderator of a panel discussion on The Other Side of the Wind at the 21st annual Sedona International Film Festival in Sedona, Arizona, in February 2015.[2]
He was a producer on the Morgan Neville documentary, They'll Love Me When I'm Dead, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival in August 2018.[3]
Karp's writing has appeared in Salon, Vanity Fair, The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Sun-Times and Newsweek, among others.[4][5]
References
edit- ^ "Josh Karp | Authors | Macmillan". US Macmillan. Retrieved 2019-01-20.
- ^ "Sedona Eye » Sedona Film Festival Honors Orson Welles". Retrieved 2019-01-20.
- ^ "Tremolo Productions | Film | They'll Love Me When I'm Dead". Tremolo Productions. Retrieved 2019-01-20.
- ^ "Josh Karp | HuffPost". www.huffingtonpost.com. Retrieved 2019-01-20.
- ^ "Straight Down the Middle - University of Nebraska Press". Nebraska Press. Retrieved 2019-01-20.