Dan Rottenberg (born June 10, 1942) is an author, editor and journalist. He has been the chief editor of seven publications, most recently Broad Street Review[1] , an independent cultural arts website he launched in December 2005 and edited for eight years. He is also the author of 12 non-fiction books.
Biography
From 2000 to 2004 Rottenberg was editor of Family Business, an international quarterly magazine dealing with family-owned companies. From 1996 to 1998 he was editor of the Philadelphia Forum, a weekly Philadelphia opinion paper that he founded.[1] In 1993 he created Seven Arts, a monthly magazine based in Philadelphia. From 1981 to 1993 Rottenberg edited the Welcomat, a weekly opinion forum, later known as Philadelphia Weekly.[2]
Rottenberg wrote an editorial page column for The Philadelphia Inquirer from 1978 to 1997. He has written more than 300 articles for such magazines as Town & Country, Reader's Digest, The New York Times Magazine, Forbes, Civilization, American Benefactor, Personal Finance - Bloomberg, TV Guide, Playboy, Rolling Stone, and Chicago. He served as a consultant in 1981 when Forbes launched its annual "Forbes 400″ list of wealthiest Americans. Rottenberg's syndicated film commentaries appeared in monthly city magazines around the U.S. from 1971 to 1983.[2]
Rottenberg is credited with having been the first journalist to use the word yuppie in print, writing for Chicago magazine in 1980.[3]
Earlier in his career Rottenberg was executive editor of Philadelphia Magazine (1972–75), managing editor of Chicago Journalism Review (1970–72), a reporter with The Wall Street Journal (1968–70), and editor of the Commercial-Review, a daily newspaper in Portland, Indiana (1964–68).[2]
Rottenberg is a native of New York City. He graduated from the Fieldston School in 1960 and the University of Pennsylvania in 1964. He lives in Philadelphia with his wife, a piano teacher. Their two grown daughters live and work in New York City.[4]
Publications
- Finding Our Fathers, a guide to tracing Jewish ancestors (Random House,1977)[2]
- Fight On, Pennsylvania, a college football history (1985)[3]
- Wolf, Block, Schorr and Solis-Cohen, the history of a Philadelphia law firm (1988) [4]
- Main Line Wasp, the memoirs of Philadelphia civic leader W. Thacher Longstreth (1990); [5], ([6],
- Revolution on Wall Street, a chronicle of the U.S. securities industry (W.W. Norton, 1993)[7]
- Middletown Jews, an oral history of the Jews of Muncie, Indiana (Indiana University Press), 1997) [8]
- The Inheritor's Handbook, Bloomberg Press, (1998) [9]
- The Man Who Made Wall Street, a biography of banker Anthony Drexel University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001([10] Archived 2014-01-21 at the Wayback Machine
- In the Kingdom of Coal, a narrative history of the U.S. coal industry as seen through the eyes of two families. Routledge, (2003) [11] [1]
- Death of a Gunfighter, a biography of Pony Express superintendent Jack Slade (Westholme, 2008) [12] Archived 2014-02-02 at the Wayback Machine
- The Outsider: Albert M. Greenfield and the Fall of the Protestant Establishment, published in 2014 by Temple University Press.[13]
- The Education of a Journalist: My 70 Years on the Frontiers of Free Speech, published in 2022 by Redmount Press.[14]
References
- ^ a b Jane Biberman, "A Wordslinger Takes on a Gunslinger— and Other Pursuits," Pennsylvania Gazette, Sept.-Oct. 2010, p. 69-70.
- ^ a b c Michael S. Rozansky, "A professional contrarian gets set to take on the art world," The Philadelphia Inquirer, Sept. 20, 1993, p. D3.
- ^ Seemann, Luke (June 3, 2015). "The Yuppie Turns 35". Chicago magazine.
- ^ Contemporary Authors, Volume 102 (1987), p. 441.
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