Mike Sager
| Mike Sager | |
|---|---|
| Born |
August 17, 1956 Charlottesville, Virginia, United States |
| Occupation | Journalist, author |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Journalism |
Mike Sager (born August 17, 1956) is a bestselling author and award-winning journalist. He has been called "the Beat poet of American journalism, that rare reporter who can make literature out of shabby reality."
A former Washington Post staff writer and Rolling Stone contributing editor, Sager has been a writer-at-large for Esquire for nearly two decades. In 2010 he won the American Society of Magazine Editors' National Magazine award for profile writing for his story "The Man Who Never Was," which appeared in Esquire. He is the author of more than a dozen books and e-books, and has edited several journalism text books. Eight of his articles have been optioned for or have inspired Hollywood feature films, including Boogie Nights, starring Mark Wahlberg, and Wonderland, starring Val Kilmer,. In 2012 The Marinovich Project, a documentary based on Sager's Esquire article and featuring Sager as a narrator, aired on ESPN. Sager has read and lectured at many American schools of journalism. Currently he is engaged as a faculty mentor with Goucher College's MFA/Creative Nonfiction program. In 2012 he founded The Sager Group LLC, a boutique publishing house.
For nearly forty years, Sager has chronicled the underbelly of the American scene and psyche. His first collection, Scary Monsters and Super Freaks (2004), was a Los Angeles Times bestseller, as was his second, Revenge of the Donut Boys, published in 2007. His first novel, Deviant Behavior, was published by Grove/Atlantic's Black Cat in April 2008. A third collection, Wounded Warriors, was published in October 2008 and received the Military Writers Society of America Founder's Award and the American Author's Association Golden Quill Award.Tattoos & Tequila: To Hell and Back with One of Rock's Most Notorious Frontmen, with Vince Neil, published in September 2010, was a New York Times best seller. His fourth collection, The Someone You're Not, was published by The Sager Group in October 2012, as was Next Wave: America's New Generation of Great Literary Journalists, edited with Walt Harrington. His second novel, High Tolerance, was published by The Sager Group in May 2013.The Devil and John Holmes-25th Anniversary Author's Edition: And Other True Stories of Drugs, Porn and Murder, was published in 2014.Stoned Again: The High Times and Strange Life of a Drugs Correspondent, was published by Byliner Selects in 2015.
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