Minutaglio, Bill
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Name (Latin)
Minutaglio, Bill
Other forms of name
Minutaglio, Bill (William Donald), 1955-
Minutaglio, Bill, 1955-
Minutaglio, W. D. (William Donald), 1955-
Minutaglio, William D., 1955-
Minutaglio, William Donald, 1955-
Date of birth
1955
Associated country
United States
Field of activity
Journalism
Occupation
College teachers
Journalists
Gender
male
Sources of Information
- Biography (He has been a Professor of Journalism at The University of Texas at Austin, where he has held the Everett C. Collier Centennial Chair in the College of Communication. He has been given The Regents' Outstanding Teaching Award by the The University of Texas System. He is married to the dancer and choreographer Holly Williams, who has starred nationally and internationally with the companies of Mark Morris, Jose Limon and Laura Dean. His daughter Rose writes for many national publications (including Esquire, People, Sports Illustrated, Marie Claire, etc.) and is a correspondent/editor with Hearst Magazines. His son Nick is a Los Angeles-based producer/musician who records and collaborates under the name Snocker Cot. ( (Bill Minutaglio's website, viewed June 17, 2022:) )
- Bill Minutaglio Web page (Bill Minutaglio Clinical Professor, School of Journalism; teaches narrative writing and investigative journalism; B.A. from Columbia University; M.S. from the Columbia University School of Journalism; studied for a year at the Columbia School of International Affairs; interned at the United Nations in New York; worked for the U.S. Department of Agriculture monitoring free food programs in Harlem; spent 18 years at The Dallas Morning News as a senior writer/columnist; feature writer for The Houston Chronicle; arts editor of The San Antonio Express-News; police reporter/columnist for The Abilene Reporter-News ( (University of Texas at Austin, School of Journalism, Moody College of Communication Web site, viewed June 30, 2017:) )
- William D. Minutaglio Web page (William D. Minutaglio, Clinical Professor, School of Journalism, College of Communication; Bill Minutaglio is an award-winning journalist and author ( (University of Texas at Austin, UT Experts Web site, viewed June 30, 2017:) )
- born Brooklyn, 1955; journalist; professor at The University of Texas at Austin; married to Holly Williams ( (Wikipedia Bill Minutaglio Web page) )
- Bill Minutaglio (Bill Minutaglio (né William Donald Minutaglio; born 1955) is a journalist, educator and author of nine books. He is the recipient of a PEN Center USA Literary Award and has served as a professor at The University of Texas at Austin, where he was given The Regents' Outstanding Teaching Award. Minutaglio was born in Brooklyn. He attended Catholic schools and earned an undergraduate degree in history and Asian studies from Columbia University. He studied for one year at the Columbia University Graduate School of International Affairs, and graduated with a master's degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. While a student, he worked at the United Nations in New York as an intern in the Center for Economic and Social Information. In 1978, Minutaglio became a police reporter and columnist at the Abilene Reporter-News in Texas. He then worked as a writer, editor and columnist at the three largest Texas newspapers - The Dallas Morning News, Houston Chronicle and San Antonio Express-News. In the 1990s, he began writing for national magazines and was hired by editor Tina Brown as a contributing writer for TALK. He was a national writer for Sporting News, where he profiled Larry Bird and others. Random House editor Jon Karp asked him to write the first independent biography of George W. Bush, eventually published under the Times Books imprint. In 2002, he became a regional bureau chief for People, overseeing correspondents around the United States and Mexico, as well as the magazine's coverage of Hurricane Katrina. "For handling the Katrina disaster more deftly than the government,” Advertising Age named People the 2005 Magazine of the Year. ( (Wikipedia, viewed June 17, 2022:) )
- His First son, c1999:CIP t.p. (Bill Minutaglio)