1. Mike Sager was born on August 17,1956 and is an American author, journalist, and educator.
21 Facts About Mike Sager
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Mike Sager is the author of more than a dozen books, and has served as an editor on several journalism text books.
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Mike Sager has read and lectured at American schools of journalism.
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Mike Sager received his BA in history in June 1978.
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That same year, Mike Sager moved to Washington, DC to attend the Georgetown University Law Center.
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Mike Sager dropped out after three weeks to pursue a career in writing.
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Mike Sager applied to join The Washington Post shortly after graduating.
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Eleven months later, working in his off-hours as a freelancer, Mike Sager broke an investigative story about abuses at the US Department of Agriculture leading to his first front-page story for the paper.
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Mike Sager was later assigned to work with editor Walt Harrington.
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In time, Mike Sager became a roving feature writer, charged with covering rural Virginia.
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For one story, Mike Sager spent six weeks in Nepal with a group of doctors and medical students; they trekked to a region that had been settled by Tibetan Buddhist refugees and set up a medical clinic.
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Mike Sager next wrote for Washingtonian and Regardie's magazines in Washington.
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Mike Sager published his first piece in Esquire in 1991 and became a writer-at-large in 1997.
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Mike Sager has written for Vibe, Spy, Interview, The California Sunday Magazine, Smithsonian, and Playboy.
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Many of Mike Sager's articles have been optioned for or have inspired films, including Boogie Nights, Wonderland, and Betrayed by Love.
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Mike Sager has written profiles on celebrities including Jack Nicholson, Robert De Niro, Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Kirk Douglas, Julia Child, Ray Charles, Faye Dunaway, Evel Knievel, Roseanne Barr, Alan Arkin, and Rod Steiger.
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Mike Sager has read and lectured at many American schools of journalism, including Columbia University, New York University, Northwestern University, the University of Missouri, Marquette University, and in other forums, ranging from the Monarch School for Homeless Children to Yale Law School.
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For four years Mike Sager led a writing workshop at the University of California, Irvine, where he was a Pereira Visiting Writer.
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In 2011 Mike Sager founded The Mike Sager Group to publish independent books.
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The Mike Sager Group has since has published many works including Next Wave: America's New Generation of Literary Journalists and The Stories We Tell: Classic Tales by America's Greatest Woman Journalists which was recognized by Constance Hale as one of the best books on narrative journalism.
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In 2018, The Mike Sager Group expanded into multimedia content including documentary, feature and web-based films.