1. Joe McGinniss was raised in Forest Hills, Queens, and Rye, New York.
13 Facts About Joe McGinniss
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Joe McGinniss attended Archbishop Stepinac High School in White Plains and then was educated at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, graduating in 1964.
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Joe McGinniss left within a year to become a sportswriter for the Philadelphia Bulletin before joining The Philadelphia Inquirer as a general interest columnist.
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Joe McGinniss responded to Malcolm in an epilogue included in later editions of Fatal Vision and on his website.
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Joe McGinniss then wrote and published Final Vision, revisiting the case, with the online journalism site Byliner.
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Joe McGinniss suggested to the Los Angeles Times that Kennedy himself had orchestrated a smear campaign against him.
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Joe McGinniss returned to the subject of Alaska in 2008 to research an article for Conde Nast's business magazine Portfolio about then-Governor Palin's promotion of a $26 billion plan to construct a natural gas pipeline from the North Slope of Alaska to a pipeline hub in Canada.
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In 2009, Joe McGinniss signed a contract to write an unauthorized biography about Palin and began research which took him to Alaska that fall and again in the spring of 2010.
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Joe McGinniss responded that there was no view of anyone's bedroom from the rental house and suggested that Palin should have simply come over with a plate of cookies and had a civil discussion with him.
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Joe McGinniss left Alaska in September 2010 to write his book on the Palin phenomenon.
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In 1995, McGinniss was awarded a $1 million advance as well as a media seat at the O J Simpson murder case, expecting to write a book about it.
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Joe McGinniss was described by his son, novelist Joe McGinniss Jr.
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Joe McGinniss died March 10,2014, at UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester from the disease at the age of 71.