Joseph Mitchell was born near Iona, North Carolina, in 1908, and came to New York City in 1929, when he was twenty-one years old. He eventually found a job as an apprentice crime reporter for The World. He also worked as a reporter and features writer at The Herald Tribune and The World-Telegram before landing at The New Yorker in 1938. "Joe Gould's Secret, " which appeared on September 26th 1964, was the last piece Mitchell ever published.
He went into work at The New Yorker almost every day for the next thirty-one years and six months but submitted no further writing.
He went into work at The New Yorker almost every day for the next thirty-one years and six months but submitted no further writing.
