John Okrent: Poet & Family Doctor
JOHN OKRENT (b.1981) is a poet and a family doctor. Okrent’s first book of poems, “This Costly Season,” about the covid pandemic in 2020, was recently published by Arrowsmith. One of the poems was first published on the front page of the “Seattle Times,” above the fold.
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DANIEL OKRENT is the award-winning author of six books, including “The Guarded Gate,” and “Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition (2011),” which was cited by the American Historical Association as the year’s best book on American history. “Great Fortune: The Epic of Rockefeller Center” was a finalist for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize in history. Among his many jobs in publishing, he was corporate editor-at-large at Time Inc., and was the first public editor of the New York Times.
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Editor’s Note: In October 2003, Daniel Okrent was named the first public editor for the New York Times (NYT) following the Jayson Blair...
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