Joseph Michael Sharkey was an American author and columnist.
14 Facts About Joe Sharkey
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Joe Sharkey's columns focused mostly on business travel, while his non-fiction books focused on criminality; he co-authored a novel.
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Joe Sharkey wrote for The New York Times from 1996 to 2015.
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Joseph Michael Joe Sharkey was born in Philadelphia on October 15,1946.
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Joe Sharkey enrolled at Pennsylvania State University, but did not graduate, and instead joined the US Navy.
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Joe Sharkey was married to Carolynne White; they had three children and divorced in 1982.
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On November 6,2023, Joe Sharkey died from a stroke, caused by hypertension, at his home in Tucson, Arizona.
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Joe Sharkey's 1994 book Bedlam: Greed, Profiteering, and Fraud in a Mental Health System Gone Crazy is an investigation of the psychiatric industry.
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Joe Sharkey traced soaring mental health costs to the often criminal marketing practices of biological psychiatry, which Sharkey asserted began when the number of psychiatric hospitals boomed in the late 1980s.
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Joe Sharkey provided anecdotal tales of people coerced into treatment on fabricated pretenses, and compared schemes to fill beds at for-profit mental and addiction facilities, which were offering bounties to clergy, teachers, police and "crisis counselors," to the business plan of the Holiday Inn hotel chain.
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Joe Sharkey co-authored a novel, Lady Gold, with former New York Police Department detective Angela Amato.
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Joe Sharkey was one of seven people aboard an Embraer Legacy business jet that collided in mid-air with a Gol Airlines Boeing 737 over Brazil, on September 29,2006.
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Joe Sharkey was on a freelance assignment in Brazil for Business Jet Traveler, a magazine specialized in corporate aviation.
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In 2008, Joe Sharkey was sued before a Brazilian court for an article in The New York Times.