Joseph Mitchell

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July 27, 1908 in Fairmont, North Carolina, The United States

died

May 24, 1996

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Joseph Mitchell was an American writer who wrote for The New Yorker. He is known for his carefully written portraits of eccentrics and people on the fringes of society, especially in and around New York City.
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Average rating: 4.36 · 1,390 ratings · 208 reviews · 20 distinct works

	Up in the Old Hotel 4.48 avg rating — 830 ratings — published 1992 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Joe Gould's Secret 4.15 avg rating — 257 ratings — published 1997 — 11 editions	My rating:
	McSorley's Wonderful Saloon by Joseph Mitchell, Calvin Trillin 4.30 avg rating — 92 ratings — published 1944 — 2 editions	My rating:
	My Ears Are Bent by Joseph Mitchell, Dan Frank (Foreword by), Sheila McGrath (Foreword by) 4.20 avg rating — 91 ratings — published 1938 — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Bottom Of The Harbor 4.24 avg rating — 66 ratings — published 1959 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Old Mr. Flood 4.19 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 1948 — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Missionary Pioneer, or a Brief Memoir of the Life, Labours, and Death of John Stewart, (Man of Colour) Founder, Under God of the Mission Among the 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
	The Prodigal. a Dramatic Piece [In Two Acts and in Verse; Altered from the Fatal Extravagance of J. Mitchell, or Rather A. Hill? by F. G. Waldron] by Joseph Mitchell, Francis Godolphin Waldron 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
	Dissertatio Medica Inauguralis, de Hysteria. Quam, ... Pro Gradu Doctoris, ... Eruditorum Examini Subjicit Josephus Mitchell, .. 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2010	My rating:
	The Missionary Pioneer: Or a Brief Memoir of the Life, Labors and Death of John Stewart; Man of Color (1827) by Joseph Mitchell, William Walker 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2007 — 3 editions	My rating:

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“He had a habit of remarking to bartenders that he didn't see any sense in mixing whiskey with water since the whiskey was already wet.”
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“Also, I had not yet found out about time; I was still under the illusion that I had plenty of time - time for this, time for that, time for everything, time to waste.”
― Joseph Mitchell, Up in the Old Hotel

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“All information of a spiritual or personal nature will have to come from our father, who art in heaven, and I think he's in New York right now.”
― Joseph Mitchell

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