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- Zack O'Malley Greenburg profile, Goodreads.com; accessed February 2, 2017.
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Zack O'Malley Greenburg (born March 8, 1985, New York City) is an American writer, journalist and former child actor. [1] He spent a decade as a senior editor at Forbes magazine, covering music, media and entertainment. He is also the author of five books, including Empire State of Mind: How Jay-Z Went From Street Corner to Corner Office (Penguin/Portfolio, 2011) [2] and A-List Angels: How a Band of Actors, Artists, and Athletes Hacked Silicon Valley (Little, Brown, 2020). [3] He played Lorenzo Odone in the 1992 film Lorenzo's Oil .
Greenburg's first writing job was reviewing video games at Boys' Life magazine at the age of 14. While at Yale, he wrote extensively for the Yale Daily News as a varsity baseball beat reporter, sports columnist, and scene (arts and living) writer. A feature he authored on a varsity outfielder who had returned to the field after nearly dying in a car crash won him an AP award his senior year. [4]
He has written more than 1,000 articles for Forbes, Forbes Asia, and Forbes.com. He has profiled such influential figures as Ashton Kutcher, [5] Katy Perry, [6] Bruno Mars, [7] Kendrick Lamar, [8] Alex Rodriguez, [9] 50 Cent, Toby Keith, Steve Wozniak, Alicia Keys, Swizz Beatz, Dr. Ruth, and Richard Branson.
He has written for The New York Times , [10] The Washington Post , [11] Billboard , [12] McSweeney's , [13] and other news outlets. [14] He has also served as an expert source for CNBC, BBC, Bloomberg, Reuters, NPR, and other print, web, radio, and video outlets. [15]
Both of Greenburg's parents are authors: his father, Dan Greenburg, authored the series The Zack Files and his mother, Suzanne O'Malley, is a former television writer ( Law & Order ) and the author of a book on Andrea Yates [ citation needed ].
A former child actor, Zack played the title role in the film Lorenzo's Oil , alongside Nick Nolte and Susan Sarandon. [16] He moved from New York to Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, and graduated from Hastings High School in 2003. Greenburg graduated from Yale College with a degree in American Studies and a concentration in Urban Studies, and started writing for Forbes magazine in 2007. [17]
A former child actor, Zack played the title role in the film Lorenzo's Oil (1992) and arrived at Forbes in 2007 after graduating from Yale with an American Studies degree.
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