Daniel Okrent (born April 2, 1948) is an American writer and editor. He is best known for having served as the first public editor of The New York Times newspaper, for inventing Rotisserie League Baseball, and for writing several books, most recently Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition, which served as a major source for the 2011 Ken Burns/Lynn Novick miniseries Prohibition. In November 2011, Last Call won the Albert J. Beveridge prize, awarded by the American Historical Association to the year's best book of American history. "Old Jews Telling Jokes", a theatrical revue he co-wrote and co-produced with Peter Gethers, opened at the Westside Theatre in Manhattan on May 20, 2012.
A native of Detroit, graduate of the University of Michigan, lives in Manhattan with wife and two children.
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Inventor/founder of Rotisserie League Baseball
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Also, one-time editor at Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.,Viking Press, and editor-in-chief of general books at Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc. Founding editor of New England Monthly.
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Former editor-at-large, Time Inc. and former Managing Editor of LIFE magazine.
Miscellaneous
Title
Year
Status
Character
Prohibition
2011
TV Mini-Series documentary senior creative consultant - 3 episodes
Jazz
2001
TV Mini-Series documentary senior advisor - 4 episodes
Baseball
1994
TV Mini-Series documentary consultant - 9 episodes
Actor
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Hoax
2006
Real Publisher #1
Sweet and Lowdown
1999
A.J. Pickman
Producer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Let's Have Some Church Detroit Style
2015
Documentary producer
Thanks
Title
Year
Status
Character
Frank Lloyd Wright
1998
Documentary special thanks
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
After Newtown: Guns in America
2013
Documentary
Himself, author of 'The Last Call'
Rumrunners, a Prohibition Story
2013
Documentary
Himself
Prohibition
2011
TV Mini-Series documentary
Himself - Writer
Drinks and Conversation
2011
TV Movie
Himself
Prime 9
2011
TV Series
Himself
Invitation to World Literature
2010
TV Series documentary
Himself
Baseball
1994-2010
TV Mini-Series documentary
Himself
The Daily Show
2010
TV Series
Himself
30 for 30
2010
TV Series documentary
Himself
Wordplay
2006
Documentary
Himself
Kong's New York, 1933
2006
Video documentary short
Himself
The Top 5 Reasons You Can't Blame...
2005
TV Series
Himself
ESPN SportsCentury
2001
TV Series documentary
Himself
Known for movies
Wordplay (2006) as Himself
Kong's New York, 1933 (2006) as Himself
Sweet and Lowdown (1999) as A.J. Pickman
After Newtown: Guns in America (2013) as Himself, author of 'The Last Call'
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