Mike Sager

Quick Facts

Full Name	Mike Sager
Occupation	Journalist
Date Of Birth	Aug 17, 1956(1956-08-17)
Age	68
Birthplace	Charlottesville
Country	United States
Birth City	Virginia
Horoscope	Leo

Mike Sager Biography

Mike Sager is one of the most popular and richest Journalist who was born on August 17, 1956 in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States. Mike Sager, born August 17, 1956, is an award-winning journalist and author. He is known as “The Beat poet of American journalism”, a rare journalist who can create literature from shabby realities.

Sager continued to write for Washingtonian and Regardie’s magazines over the next few years. He also wrote a monthly column called “Washington Beat” while at Regardie’s. He was a Rolling Stone contributing editor in 1987. In 1993, he wrote a regular column called “Living in the USA” for Rolling Stone. Sager was appointed writer-at-large at GQ in late 1993. In 1997, he joined Esquire. He has also contributed to Vibe, Spy and Interview.

A former Washington Post staff writer, Rolling Stone contributing editor, and writer for GQ, Sager has been a writer for Esquire for more than two decades. In 2010 he received the American Society of Magazine Editors’ National Magazine award for profile writing for his story “The Man Who Never Was,” which appeared in Esquire. He is the author of more than a dozen books and e-books, and has served as an editor on several journalism text books. More than a dozen of his articles have been optioned for or have inspired Hollywood feature films, including Boogie Nights, starring Mark Wahlberg, and Wonderland, starring Val Kilmer,. In 2012 The Marinovich Project, a documentary based on Sager’s Esquire article and featuring Sager as a narrator, aired on ESPN. Sager has read and lectured at many American schools of journalism. In 2012 he founded The Sager Group LLC, a content brand the publishes books, makes film and video, and designs logos, products and other marketing tools.

More than a dozen of his articles have been optioned for or have inspired Hollywood feature films, including Boogie Nights, starring Mark Wahlberg, Wonderland, starring Val Kilmer, and Veronica Guerin, starring Cate Blanchett. Betrayed by Love, starring Patricia Arquette and Mare Winningham, premiered as a television movie. In 2012, The Marinovich Project, a documentary based on Sager’s Esquire article and featuring Sager as a narrator, aired on ESPN.

Sager, who founded The Sager Group in 1984 to publish independent books has published many works, including Next Wave: America’s New Generation of Literary Journalists. Constance Hale also recognized The Stories We Tell by America’s Greatest Woman Journalists as one of the most important books on narrative journalism. The Sager Group has expanded to multimedia content in 2018, including feature, documentary and web-based films. Miles Sager is the head of TSG Films.

Mike Sager Net Worth

Mike Sager is one of the richest Journalist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Mike Sager 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Sager was a senior at Emory and studied creative writing under the jazz historian Albert Murray. He would have a significant influence on Sager’s writing style by introducing rhythm and music to the context of prose. He also worked as an intern at Creative Loafing, an alternative weekly. This was his first experience in professional journalism. In June 1978, he received his BA history.

Sager, who was working as a journalist and travel writer, took a fall 1983 leave from the Post. Sager spent six weeks in Nepal as part of a team of doctors and medical students. They trekked to an area that was settled by Tibetan Buddhist refugees, and established a clinic. Sager met Birendra Bir Bikram Shah dev, the King and Queen of Nepal. He would later be killed in a massacre along with his entire family. Sager also visited Thailand to conduct research on his first Rolling Stone piece, which was about Vietnam veterans. Sager left the Post in 1984 to pursue a career as a magazine journalist.

For most of his career, Sager worked as an investigative and embedded journalist. In 2004 he released his first collection, Scary Monsters and Super Freaks, which became a Los Angeles Times bestseller, as did his next book, Revenge of the Donut Boys which was released in 2007. His first novel, Deviant Behavior, was published by Grove/Atlantic’s Black Cat in April 2008. A third collection, Wounded Warriors, was published in October 2008 and received the Military Writers Society of America Founder’s Award and the American Author’s Association Golden Quill Award. Tattoos & Tequila: To Hell and Back with One of Rock’s Most Notorious Frontmen, with Vince Neil, published in September 2010, was a New York Times best seller. His fourth collection, The Someone You’re Not, was published by The Sager Group in October 2012, as was Next Wave: America’s New Generation of Great Literary Journalists, edited with Walt Harrington. His second novel, High Tolerance, was published by The Sager Group in May 2013.The Devil and John Holmes-25th Anniversary Author’s Edition: And Other True Stories of Drugs, Porn and Murder, was published in 2014.Stoned Again: The High Times and Strange Life of a Drugs Correspondent, was published by Byliner Selects in 2015. The Lonely Hedonist: True Stories of Sex, Drugs, Dinosaurs and Peter Dinklage, was published by The Sager Group in 2017. A second edition of Revenge of the Donut Boys was issued by The Sager Group in 2018.

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