Joe Gould's Secret - Joseph Mitchell

Joseph Mitchell came to New York City in 1929 from a small farming town called Fairmont, in the swamp country of southeastern North Carolina. He was twenty-one years old. He worked as a reporter and feature writer--for The World , The New York Herald Tribune , and The New York World-Telegram --for eight years, and then went to The New Yorker , where he worked off and on until his death in 1996.