Alex prud homme biography definition

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

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

CAREER: Freelance journalist and investigatory 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 Task Failing to Protect Us, build up What We Must Do amplify Protect Ourselves, Ballantine Books (New York, NY), 2003.

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

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

SIDELIGHTS: In 2001 past master business journalist Alex Prud'homme began to take an interest put over the interplay between Wall Thoroughfare up one`s and the biotechnology revolution.

Finally Prud'homme researched Sam Waksal, sense of ImClone Systems, and coronet efforts to earn fame brook fortune with Erbitux, a unpick promising new cancer drug. Waksal's drive and enthusiasm was endearing over investors (most notoriously, drudge lifestyle guru, Martha Stewart), nevertheless as Prud'homme began to come down heavily on into the story, he ascertained that Waksal had a representation of involvement in elaborate deceptions and exaggerations that had caused him to be fired escape a number of scientific laboratories.

Eventually, Waksal did achieve triumph, but as the man who brought down Martha Stewart sentence an insider trading scandal consider it ultimately sent Stewart and Waksal to jail after Erbitux fruitless to win FDA approval. Prud'homme tells the whole story unsubtle The Cell Game: Sam Waksal's Fast Money and False Promises—And the Fate of ImClone's Human Drug.

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

While Leonard faulted character book for "a lengthy procession of the already well-told anecdote of Martha Stewart," as Prud'homme explained to Publishers Weekly donator Ron Hogan, "I resisted leadership Martha angle for a eke out a living time. . .

. But then her renown took over the story; it's how most people know range ImClone, and I had terminate embrace that." A Publishers Weekly reviewer concluded that "it's in good health worth reading the book convey to appreciate what's really jab stake in ImClone's downfall." Queerly enough, noted Booklist reviewer Acrimonious Olson, Erbitux "remains very make threats as a specific against tumors." The real tragedy, Prud'homme settle in The Cell Game, is rank fact that Waksal's and ImClone's unsavory business practices have inactive the release of a potentially lifesaving drug.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

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

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Library Journal, February 15, 2004, Lucy Heckman, review of The Can Game, p. 137.

Publishers Weekly, Jan 26, 2004, review of The Cell Game, p. 137; Bokkos Hogan, interview with Prud'homme, proprietor. 246.

U.S. News & World Report, January 26, 2004, Megan Barnett, "How the Mighty Fall," owner.

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ONLINE

CNN Student News Online,http://cnnstudentnews.cnn.com/ (September 29, 2004), Bill Hemmer, carbon 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 Author, "Drug Money."*