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Hirshberg
Hirshberg is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Al Hirshberg (1909–1973), American author and sportswriter *Charles Hirshberg, American journalist *Gary Hirshberg (born 1952), American businessman *Glen Hirshberg Glen Martin Hirshberg (born 1966 in Royal Oak, a suburb of Detroit, Michigan) is an American author best known for horror fiction. Biography Born to parents Linda Hirshberg (psychologist) and Jerry Hirshberg (painter, founder of Nissan Design ... (born 1966), American writer See also * Hirschberg (other) {{surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glen Hirshberg
Glen Martin Hirshberg (born 1966 in Royal Oak, a suburb of Detroit, Michigan) is an American author best known for horror fiction. Biography Born to parents Linda Hirshberg (psychologist) and Jerry Hirshberg (painter, founder of Nissan Design International, and author of ''The Creative Priority''), Hirshberg began telling stories at the age of three. "My mother was a psychologist, my father a designer and painter, and I think their influence still resonates through everything I write. I can’t draw a straight line, but I love painting with the language, and what interests me most in stories, even the spooky ones, is the way people respond to and discover one another as their lives unfold or unravel." Hirshberg was ten years old in 1976 when the Oakland County Child Killer began to kidnap and kill children in his neighborhood. This formative experience finds outlet in the plot of Hirshberg's first novel ''The Snowman's Children'' which, as ''Publishers Weekly'' relates, is the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gary Hirshberg
Gary Hirshberg (born 1954) is an American businessman. He is the former chief executive officer of Stonyfield Farm, the world's leading organic yogurt producer, based in Londonderry, New Hampshire. He joined the company just after its founding in 1983 and stepped down in 2011, but continues to serve as Chairman. He frequently speaks on topics including sustainability, organic agriculture and the profitability of green business. In 2011, Hirshberg was mentioned as a possible Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate against New Hampshire's junior U.S. Senator John E. Sununu. Early life and education Hirshberg was born in Manchester, New Hampshire in 1954. Hirshberg was one of the first graduates of Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts in 1976. He was also one of the first graduates of The Derryfield School in Manchester, New Hampshire. Work history In his early career, Hirshberg served as the Executive Director of The New Alchemy Institute, a research and education cent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al Hirshberg
Albert Simon Hirshberg (May 10, 1909 April 13, 1973), was an American writer and sportswriter whose work was published primarily from the 1930s to the 1960s. He is best known as the co-author of Jimmy Piersall's 1955 autobiography titled ''Fear Strikes Out: The Jimmy Piersall Story'', which was later made into the 1957 film ''Fear Strikes Out'', starring Anthony Perkins. Early life Al was born on May 10, 1909, the son of David Hirshberg. He served as an officer in the United States Navy in the South Pacific during World War II. Career Hirshberg wrote several books on the history of the Boston Red Sox baseball team, and co-wrote dozens of other people's memoirs, often, but not exclusively, about baseball players and/or Boston area sports figures and teams. He worked for ''The Boston Post'' from 1930 to 1952 and the ''Boston Herald'' from 1964 to 1968. Personal life Hirshberg had two children from his marriage to Marjorie Littauer Hirshberg, to whom he was married for 31 yea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Hirshberg
Charles Hirshberg is an American journalist and sportswriter. He primarily writes for large-circulation magazines. His articles and columns have appeared in ''Time'', ''Sports Illustrated'', ''Life'', the ''Los Angeles Times'', ''The Washington Post'', ''Men's Health'' and other publications. As of 2002, he was an editor of ''Popular Science''. His mother was the astrophysicist Joan Feynman and his uncle was Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman Richard Phillips Feynman (; May 11, 1918 – February 15, 1988) was an American theoretical physicist, known for his work in the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, the theory of quantum electrodynamics, the physics of the superf .... Bibliography Hirshberg is the author of several books: * * * * References American people of Polish-Jewish descent American people of Russian-Jewish descent American male sportswriters Jewish American sportswriters Living people Year of birth missing (living peo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |