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| Born | Paul Robert Spike (1947-08-03)August 3, 1947 (age 78) Newark, Ohio, U.S. |
| Education | Columbia University |
| Occupation(s) | Writer, editor, journalist |
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| Father | Robert W. Spike |
| Relatives | John Spike (brother) |
Paul Robert Spike is an American author,editor in chief and journalist. He is best known as the author of the 1973 memoirPhotographs of My Father about the murder of his father, civil rights leaderRobert W. Spike, in 1966.
Spike is the author of five books. His memoirPhotographs of My Father (Knopf, 1973) is the most widely known; an autobiographical account of the murder of his father, civil rights leader Rev. Robert W. Spike,[1] the book was chosen by theNew York Public Library as one of its "Ten Best Books of The Year."[citation needed]
His four other works include a collection of short stories, two political thrillers, and the cultnovelization ofTerry Gilliam'sJabberwocky which Spike composed under the pseudonym "Ralph Hoover".[2]
In 1997, Spike became the first American editor of the 150-year-old British humour magazinePunch which he relaunched as a weekly investigative and satiricalgadfly,[3][4] but soon left.[5]
In 1970 Spike received the John Train Humor Prize awarded byThe Paris Review.[6]
Spike graduated fromColumbia University in 1970.[7] He has a son and a daughter by authorMaureen Freely, and a son by editorAlexandra Shulman, both former wives.[8][9] His brother is art historianJohn Spike.[10]
...this month's editor of Punch is James Steen, who steps up from deputy following the mysterious and rapid departure of former editor Paul Spike.
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