For the women who followed, their only choice was to support, serve, or submit. Formed by the gold rush and destroyed by the 1906 earthquake, it served as a pleasure palace for the legions of men who sought their fortunes in the California foothills.
San Francisco, until the mid-1940s, was a city that lived by its own rules, fast and loose. Bloom is the 2020 winner of the Society of Professional Journalists’ Distinguished Teaching in Journalism Award, conferred annually to one journalism professor, “who has made an exceptional contribution to the profession and/or journalism education.THE VIVID, SCANDAL-FILLED STORY OF A SHREWD, RAGS-TO-RICHES MILLIONAIRESS AND THE RUTHLESS POLITICIAN WHO PURSUED HER, TOLD AGAINST THE EFFERVESCENT BACKDROP OF AMERICA’S GOLDEN CITY-SAN FRANCISCO.
Kinsella, Jane Smiley, Marvin Bell, and John Irving. In 2011, the city of Iowa City, one of 39 UNESCO Cities of Literature, selected Bloom for inclusion in its Literary Walk, a series of streets of commemorative plaques that honor writers with Iowa connections, including Flannery O’Conner, Kurt Vonnegut, W.P. Bloom’s articles have appeared in Smithsonian, The New York Times Magazine, Chicago Tribune Magazine, Washington Post, London Guardian, CJR, Salon, Zócala Public Square, and Narratively. Tears of Mermaids traces a single pearl from diver’s hand to woman’s jewelry. The Oxford Project tells the intimate stories of 100 residents in a small town over a 23-year period. Postville details an escalating civil war between ultra-Orthodox Hasidic Jews and Lutherans in a rural meatpacking community. Bloom’s narrative work is exemplified by three other of his bestselling books, Postville (Harcourt, 2000), The Oxford Project (Welcome Books, 2008), and Tears of Mermaids (St. The Audacity of Inez Burns: Dreams, Desire, Treachery & Ruin in the City of Gold (Regan Arts, 2018) is a biography of a San Francisco libertine who performed fifty thousand hygienic, albeit illegal, abortions. Blue Eyes, Brown Eyes: A Cautionary Tale of Race and Brutality (University of California Press, 2021) is the story of the Blue-Eyes, Brown-Eyes Experiment, using eye color to simulate racism. Bloom is the author of six nonfiction narrative books. A former award-winning journalist for the Los Angeles Times and Dallas Morning News, now Professor of Journalism at the University of Iowa, Stephen G.
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