Sidney Zion
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Sidney Zion is an American writer. His works include Markers, Begin from Beginning, Read All about It, Trust Your Mother but Cut the Cards, (collections of his columns), Loyalty and Betrayal: The Story of the American Mob and Markers (a novel). He is co-author of The Autobiography of Roy Cohn (Source: http://wiredforbooks.org/sidneyzion/). He also was a co-founder and co-editor of Scanlan's Monthly magazine.
Zion graduated from University of Pennsylvania and Yale Law School, working as a trial lawyer until becoming Assistant US Attorney for New Jersey in 1961.
Having worked as an Assistatn United States Attorney for New Jersey starting in 1961 after having been a trial lawyer, Zion turned to journalism and writing novels. He worked for various New York publications, including the New York Times, the Daily News, the New York Post and New York Magazine. He is a recipient of the Ben Hecht Journalism Award. (Sources: www.nydailynews.com/news/col/zion/)
The movie Roy Cohn: Joseph McCarthy's Right-Hand Man drew heavily on Zion's book on Cohn (Souarce: Journal of American History: http://www.historycooperative.org/cgi-bin/justtop.cgi?act=justtop&url=http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/jah/86.3/mr_22.html and http://shalomtv.org/_wsn/page5.html).
