Neil Steinberg
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Neil Steinberg is a columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times. He joined the staff in 1987, and his column appears four times a week.
He also wrote a column regularly for the New York Daily News, and his columns have been reprinted by the Jerusalem Post and other papers.
Steinberg has written for a wide variety of publications, including Sports Illustrated, The New York Times Sunday Magazine, Granta, Rolling Stone, Details, Men's Journal, National Lampoon and Spy.
His books include Complete and Utter Failure: A Celebration of Also-rans, Runners-Up, Never-Weres and Total Flops (Doubleday: 1994), The Alphabet of Modern Annoyances (Doubleday: 1996), If at All Possible, Involve a Cow (St. Martin's: 1992) and Don't Give Up the Ship: Finding my Father While Lost at Sea (Ballantine: 2002). His most recent book, Hatless Jack (Plume: 2004) is an examination of the decline of the men's hat industry, played out against the career of John F. Kennedy. The Times said the story was "brilliantly-told."
His next book, titled Drunkard, has been purchased by Dutton and is scheduled to be published in 2008.
Primarily a humorist, Steinberg also delves into serious journalism -- writing about mandatory minimum drug sentences for Rolling Stone, for instance, and interviewing world leaders for the Sun-Times.
Steinberg also currently teaches journalism at Loyola University in Chicago.
In the mid-1990s The Chicago Reader ran a popular column, written by Steinberg under the pseudonym "Ed Gold", called "BobWatch." The idea behind the column -- "We read Bob Greene so you don't have to" -- highlighted Greene's cliches and flaws. When he decided to discontinue the column in 1997, Crain's Chicago Business called it "a brief flash of genius."
Steinberg is married, has two sons, and lives in Northbrook, Illinois.
On September 30, 2005, Steinberg was arrested and charged with domestic battery. [1] The charges against Steinberg were dropped after he completed a 28-day alcohol rehab program.[2]. Prior to his arrest, Steinberg was a member of the Sun-Times editorial board.
