Discipline: Literature

John Sack

Discipline: Literature
MacDowell Fellowships: 1961
More: www.nytimes.com/2004/03/31/arts/john-sack-74-correspondent-who-reported-from-battlefields.html
John Sack (1930–2004) was an American literary journalist and war correspondent. He reported from the battlefields of Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Yugoslavia, and Afghanistan. His work appeared in such periodicals as Harper's, The Atlantic, Esquire, and The New Yorker. He was also an editor at Playboy. A correspondent and later a bureau chief for CBS News in Spain, he authored ten books, including the controversial title, An Eye for an Eye: The Untold Story of Jewish Revenge Against Germans in 1945, which described cases of persecution of Germans by Jews in post–World War II Polish internment camps.

Studios

Sorosis

John Sack worked in the Sorosis studio.

Sorosis Studio was funded by the New York Carol Club of Sorosis. The small, masonry studio was designed by F. Winsor, Jr., the architect who also designed Savidge Library (1926) and Mixter Studio (1927). At the time of construction, the large porch on the southeast façade offered a spectacular mountain view that has since been obscured…

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