Scott Raab (born March 21, 1952) is an American nonfiction author and former contributing journalist for ''

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''.

Early years

Scott Raab was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1952. The Raab family relocated to Los Angeles in 1960, but after his parents divorced in 1962, he returned to Cleveland with his mother and two younger brothers. Raab graduated from

Cleveland State Cleveland State University (CSU) is a public research university in Cleveland, Ohio. It was established in 1964 and opened for classes in 1965 after acquiring the entirety of Fenn College, a private school that had been in operation since 1923. ...

in 1983 with a bachelor's degree, and in 1986 received his

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in fiction from the Iowa Writers' Workshop.

Professional career

Raab was a writer for '' GQ'' Magazine from 1992 until 1997, and was a regular contributor to ''Esquire'' from 1997 until 2016. Much of his work at ''Esquire'' was one-on-one interviews with various celebrities (e.g. Phil Spector, Paul Giamatti, Don Zimmer). The style of his non-interview writing is typically informal in nature, mainly in the voice of a storyteller.

Personal

Raab is a self-professed "fat Jew from Cleveland, a great

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town" who has mentioned on several occasions his anti- haute cuisine disposition. Although not a food writer by trade, he has written frequently about the Cleveland food scene, and may be the biggest pundit of Slyman's Deli's award-winning corned-beef sandwich, which he has mentioned in more than one article appearing in ''Esquire''. He is a remarried

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, who currently lives in New Jersey with his wife and son. An avid fan of the Cleveland Indians, Raab has a tattoo of

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on his forearm, which he had done in a Dallas tattoo parlor during a 1994 interview with

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player Dennis Rodman. He has since advocated for the logo to be retired.

Bibliography

* * * * * ''You're Welcome, Cleveland: How I Helped Lebron James Win a Championship and Save a City'' (2016)

External links

Home page

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Raab, Scott 1952 births Writers from Cleveland Jewish American writers American essayists American male journalists American magazine staff writers Cleveland State University alumni Iowa Writers' Workshop alumni Living people American male essayists Journalists from Ohio Esquire (magazine) people