title: Life Stories: Profiles from The New Yorker
author:  David Remnick 
description: Way back in 1926 the founding editor of <i>The New Yorker</i> suggested that the title <i>Profiles</i> be registered with the copyright bureau. Harold Ross had ample reason, for though he didn't invent the word itself, he certainly invested it with new significance. Over the years, <i>New Yorker</i> Profiles came to represent a new kind of biography: concise, well-researched, and impeccably written sketches of personalities who were often famous--but just as often not. Take for example "Mr. Hunter's Grave," Joseph Mitchell's 1956 Profile of George H. Hunter, the 87-year-old chairman of the board of trustees of the African Methodist church on Staten Island. This delightful piece leads off a select group of Profiles culled from <i>The New Yorker</i>'s first 75 years and collected in <i>Life Stories</i>, edited by David Remnick. More a study of a place and a way of life than of a particular man, Mitchell's Profile stretched the parameters of the form.
zlib_text: Table of Contents
  A New York Minute
  Publication Page
  Dedication
  Chapter One
  Chapter Two
  Chapter Three
  Chapter Four
  Chapter Five
  Chapter Six
  Chapter Seven
  Chapter Eight
  Chapter Nine
  Chapter Ten
  Chapter Eleven
  Chapter Twelve
  Chapter Thirteen
  Chapter Fourteen
  Epilogue
  About the Author
  Also Available
  Also Read
  Thank You
  
  A New York Minute
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  Ember Leigh
  
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