Stephen Bloom stephen-g-bloom@uiowa.edu Stephen G. Bloom is the author of Postville: A Clash of Cultures in Heartland America (Harcourt, 2000) and Inside the Writer's Mind (Blackwell, 2002). A professor of journalism at the University of Iowa and a former reporter for the Dallas Morning News, Los Angeles Times, San Jose Mercury News, and Sacramento Bee, Bloom's essays have appeared The Wilson Quarterly, Nieman Reports, Smithsonian, DoubleTake, The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, and Salon. His essay on how to tell a story recently appeared in Annals of Clinical Psychiatry. Bloom is currently under contract with St. Martin’s Press to write Tears of Mermaids: The Secret History of Pearls, due out in 2008. The book uses pearls as a metaphor to explore the interconnections of global politics, world finance and haute couture. Bloom is co-creator of two oral history projects: The Iowa Journalists Oral History Project, the world’s first video-streaming archive of journalists; and The Oxford Project, which spans two decades in the lives of residents of a rural Iowa town. |
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