A noted author, as well as a respected journalist for the Wall Street Journal, Mr. Zuckerman began life as a tree surgeon. It was only after he became infected with Dutch elm disease that he decided to find a safer career and became a reporter.
His first job was as a cub reporter with the Washoe County Impediment -- a weekly paper in Nevada that printed mostly lost animal announcements and ran large ads for the Aetherius Society.
After five years apprenticeship he found work as an obituary writer for the Dracula Fan Club newsletter.
Then he hit the big time with his first book: "Public Enema Number One: The Fallacy of Prune Juice." It topped the New York Times bestseller list for ten weeks in a row.
He began work at the Wall Street Journal, reporting on ticker tape parades, in 2008, and has gone from triumph to triumph ever since.
His honors include the Heim Potts Award for Best Punctuation; The Tilden Medallion for Most Consistent Parchesi in an Amateur; and the prestigious Miller-Cockleburr Citation for his work with displaced ground sloths.
His hobbies include growing club moss, cheating at crossword puzzles, and carving darning eggs out of soapstone.
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