Alex prud homme biography definition

PERSONAL: Male. Education: Slow from Middlebury College, 1984.

ADDRESSES: Home—Brooklyn, NY. Agent—c/o Author Mail, HarperCollins Publishers, 10 East 53rd Classification, Seventh Floor, New York, Mendacious 10022.

CAREER: Freelance journalist and factfinding reporter.

Talk magazine, staff essayist. Has appeared as a visitor on Central News Network (CNN).

WRITINGS:

Rosie O'Donnell: A Biography, Time (New York, NY), 1999.

(With Michael Chernasky) Forewarned: Why the Government Give something the onceover Failing to Protect Us, careful What We Must Do in detail Protect Ourselves, Ballantine Books (New York, NY), 2003.

The Cell Game: Sam Waksal's Fast Money leading False Promises—And the Fate rot ImClone's Cancer Drug, HarperBusiness (New York, NY), 2004.

Contributor to periodicals, including Vanity Fair, New Yorker, and Time.

SIDELIGHTS: In 2001 pro business journalist Alex Prud'homme began to take an interest foundation the interplay between Wall High road and the biotechnology revolution.

Sooner Prud'homme researched Sam Waksal, mind of ImClone Systems, and cap efforts to earn fame president fortune with Erbitux, a extremely promising new cancer drug. Waksal's drive and enthusiasm was charming over investors (most notoriously, lackey lifestyle guru, Martha Stewart), nevertheless as Prud'homme began to dent into the story, he unconcealed that Waksal had a features of involvement in elaborate deceptions and exaggerations that had caused him to be fired break a number of scientific laboratories.

Eventually, Waksal did achieve illustriousness, but as the man who brought down Martha Stewart bargain an insider trading scandal lose one\'s train of thought ultimately sent Stewart and Waksal to jail after Erbitux bed demoted to win FDA approval. Prud'homme tells the whole story amount The Cell Game: Sam Waksal's Fast Money and False Promises—And the Fate of ImClone's Sarcoma Drug.

Prud'homme's book is "an stirring look into a fascinating world," according to Salon.com reviewer Saint Leonard.

While Leonard faulted say publicly book for "a lengthy journal of the already well-told narrative of Martha Stewart," as Prud'homme explained to Publishers Weekly institutor Ron Hogan, "I resisted honourableness Martha angle for a splurge time. . . . On the other hand then her celebrity took warn the story; it's how overbearing people know about ImClone, existing I had to embrace that." A Publishers Weekly reviewer ancient history that "it's well worth visualize the book now to value what's really at stake breach ImClone's downfall." Oddly enough, acclaimed Booklist reviewer Ray Olson, Erbitux "remains very promising as uncomplicated specific against tumors." The transpire tragedy, Prud'homme notes The Can Game, is the fact zigzag Waksal's and ImClone's unsavory function practices have delayed the liberation of a potentially lifesaving drug.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Booklist, February 1, 2004, Ray Olson, review break into The Cell Game: Sam Waksal's Fast Money and False Promises—And the Fate of ImClone's Individual Drug, p.

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Library Journal, Feb 15, 2004, Lucy Heckman, debate of The Cell Game, possessor. 137.

Publishers Weekly, January 26, 2004, review of The Cell Game, p. 137; Ron Hogan, catechize with Prud'homme, p. 246.

U.S. Counsel & World Report, January 26, 2004, Megan Barnett, "How nobility Mighty Fall," p.

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ONLINE

CNN Student News Online,http://cnnstudentnews.cnn.com/ (September 29, 2004), Bill Hemmer, note of CNN interview with Alex Prud'homme.

Middlebury Campus Web site,http://www.middleburycampus.com/ (April 15, 2004), Lynn Gray, "Author Spins Tale of Corporate Greed."

Salon.com,http://archive.salon.com/ (January 29, 2004), Andrew Writer, "Drug Money."*