Bill Buford
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Bill Buford is an American author and journalist. Buford is a staff writer and former fiction editor of the magazine, The New Yorker. He is the founding editor of Granta magazine and publisher of Granta Books (The Best of Granta Travel, The Best of Granta Reportage, and The Granta Book of the Family). Buford is known best for his journalistic memoirs Among the Thugs and Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany.
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[edit] Early life
Bill Buford was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana but he grew up California. Buford attended the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Cambridge, King's College. While at Cambridge, Buford became the founding editor of a revived version of Granta Magazine.
[edit] Editor of Granta Magazine
Bill Buford was the editor of Granta magazine from 1979 to 1995. When Buford started his work with Granta the magazine was limited to a few hundred readers. By the time Buford left the Granta the magazine was circulated internationally to over 100,000 readers.
[edit] Work for The New Yorker
Buford was the fiction editor of The New Yorker from April 1995 to December 2002. He is currently a Staff Writer and European Correspondent and lives in New York City with his wife Jessica Green and their two sons.
[edit] Author
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