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Paul Spike | |
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| Born | Paul Robert Spike August 3, 1947 Newark, Ohio, U.S. |
| Education | Columbia University |
| Occupation(s) | Writer, editor, journalist |
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| Relatives | John Spike (brother) |
Paul Robert Spike is an American author, editor in chief and journalist. He is best known as the author of the 1973 memoir Photographs of My Father about the murder of his father, civil rights leader Robert W. Spike, in 1966.
Spike is the author of five books. His memoir Photographs of My Father (Knopf, 1973) is the most widely known; an autobiographical account of the murder of his father, civil rights leader Rev. Robert W. Spike, [1] the book received exceptional praise and was chosen by the New York Public Library as one of its "Ten Best Books of The Year."
His four other works include a collection of short stories, two political thrillers, and the cult novelization of Terry Gilliam's Jabberwocky . (Spike composed under the pseudonym "Ralph Hoover.")
In 1997, Spike became the first American editor of the 150-year-old British humour magazine Punch which he relaunched as a weekly investigative and satirical gadfly, [2] but soon left after falling out with its controversial owner Mohamed Al-Fayed.
Spike has received the Paris Review Humor Prize.
Spike graduated from Columbia University in 1970. [3] He has a son and a daughter by author Maureen Freely, and a son by editor Alexandra Shulman, both former wives. [4] [5] His brother is art historian John Spike.
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