McSorley's Wonderful Saloon

Joseph Mitchell came to New York City on October 25, 1929 (the day after the stock-market crash), from a small farming town called Fairmont, in the swamp country of southeastern North Carolina. He was twenty-one years old and looking for a job as a newspaper reporter. He eventually managed to find work as an apprentice crime reporter at Police Headquarters for The World. He was a reporter and feature writer--for The World, The Herald Tribune, and The World-Telegram--for eight years, and then went to The New Yorker, where he remained until his death, on May 24, 1996, at the age of eighty-sevenMitchell, Joseph is the author of 'McSorley's Wonderful Saloon' with ISBN 9780375421020 and ISBN 0375421025.