Richard Zoglin

Richard Zoglin
Born (1948-08-08) August 8, 1948 (age 76)
OccupationJournalist, author
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of California, Berkeley
Genrenon-fiction
Notable awardsSamuel Johnson Prize
Spouse
Charla Krupp
(m. 1992; died 2012)

Richard Zoglin (born August 8, 1948)[citation needed] is an American journalist and author.

Zoglin wrote about entertainment for Time[1] for over 20 years. He is the author of Hope: Entertainer of the Century, a 2014 biography of comedian Bob Hope.

In 2008, he published Comedy at the Edge: How Stand-up in the 1970s Changed America, describing Lenny Bruce and the influence of the generation of stand-ups[2] who followed him and elaborated on his style.

  1. ^ Naremore, James (2008). More than night: film noir in its contexts. University of California Press. pp. 163–. ISBN 978-0-520-25402-2. Retrieved May 6, 2011.
  2. ^ Smith, Jacob (February 7, 2011). Spoken Word: Postwar American Phonograph Cultures. University of California Press. pp. 155–. ISBN 978-0-520-26704-6. Retrieved May 6, 2011.