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Joseph Mitchell, "Professor Sea Gull"

Joseph Mitchell’s famous 1942 profile of Joe Gould, the Greenwich Village eccentric who claimed to be writing a voluminous “Oral History of Our Time.”

mitchell-professor-sea-guAustin WoernerSeptember 28, 2019Annotated edition, Joseph Mitchell, Creative Nonfiction, Literary journalism, Character profiles