Richard Zoglin (born August 8, 1948) is an American journalist and author. Zoglin wrote about entertainment for ''

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'' for over 20 years. He is the author of ''Hope: Entertainer of the Century'', a 2014 biography of comedian

Bob Hope Leslie Townes "Bob" Hope (May 29, 1903 – July 27, 2003) was a British-American comedian, vaudevillian, actor, singer and dancer. With a career that spanned nearly 80 years, Hope appeared in more than 70 short and feature films, with ...

. In 2008, he published ''Comedy at the Edge: How Stand-up in the 1970s Changed America'', describing

Lenny Bruce Leonard Alfred Schneider (October 13, 1925 – August 3, 1966), known professionally as Lenny Bruce, was an American stand-up comedian, social critic, and satirist. He was renowned for his open, free-wheeling, and critical style of comedy which ...

and the influence of the generation of

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s who followed him and elaborated on his style.

Education

Zoglin obtained a bachalor's degree from the

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, where he later received his master's degree in journalism.

Family

Zoglin was married to Charla Krupp on August 1, 1992, until her death from

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on January 23, 2012. Charla Zoglin was an entertainment editor for '' Glamour''. Zoglin's father was the head of Zoglin Brothers Builders in

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Works

* * *''Elvis in Vegas: How the King Reinvented the Las Vegas Show''

References

1948 births 20th-century American journalists American male journalists 20th-century American male writers 21st-century American biographers 21st-century American journalists 21st-century American male writers Living people Place of birth missing (living people) Time (magazine) people UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism alumni {{US-journalist-1940s-stub