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Frank Trippett
Part1:about the author
Author
Frank Trippett :

Frank Trippett was born July 1, 1926, in Columbus, Mississippi, and grew up in Aberdeen, Mississippi. He attended Mississippi College, Duke University, and the University of Mississippi. Trippett’s first job as a journalist was with the Meridian (Mississippi) Star. He fell in love with journalism, which he later called, “that trade that was designed in heaven for those of us who are unsuited for useful employment.” Trippett worked for the Fredericksburg (Virginia) Free Lance-Star, and was the Capital Bureau Chief for the St. Petersburg (Florida) Times before joining Newsweek magazine as an associate editor in 1961. He was a senior editor at Look magazine and a senior writer and essayist for Time magazine.
Author
His writing won awards from the National Headliner Club, the National Bar Association and the American Political Science Association. Trippett is the author of the nonfiction books The States, United They Fell (1967) and The First Horsemen (1974), as well as the novel Child Ellen (1975). His essays have been anthologized in numerous college writing most recent book, Hymning & Hawing About America (2000), published by Xlibris (), is the prehensive collection of his essays. The subjects of his essays range from politics and personalities to social conditions and psychological phenomena. It is a brilliant look in the rear view mirror at the American scene during the twentieth Trippett has been called “one of the really mind-blowing talents of his generation as a journalist, essayist, and story teller.”Trippett and his wife Betty lived and raised their four children in Larchmont, New York, until his death at the age of 71 on June 18, 1998.(Article first posted January 2002)
Summary
Frank Trippett: (1926—) Now senior editor of Time magazine, he has had a lifelong career in journalism. He has s