Michael Sean Comerford
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Michael Sean Comerford

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Michael Sean Comerford is an award-winning former international journalist and author of American OZ, Beast of Main Street and an upcoming book on bicycling the Atlantic, Pacific and Gulf coasts asking ordinary people about climate change. The latest project is in cooperation with the University of Florida's Samuel Proctor Oral History Program. Previously, he's worked for newspapers in Chicago, New York, Budapest, and Moscow. He’s bicycled and hitchhiked across America, Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa. He’s ridden freight trains and rounded up cattle out West, studied Buddhism in the Himalayas, and won a heavyweight boxing championship in Ireland. Comerford toured almost 100 countries, swam the headwaters of the Nile, fought off a hippo attack, and toured ecological disaster areas in the Amazon. His byline has appeared in the Huffington Post, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, Daily Herald, Copley News Service, New York Daily News, Budapest Sun, Budapest Business Journal, and The Moscow Times. He has a master's degree from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism; a journalism fellowship at the University of Maryland, College Park; video training certificate from the Poynter Institute of Media Studies; a B.A. from Marquette University; junior year at University of College Cork, Ireland. Comerford has won several Peter Lisagor, Associated Press, and other awards. He is the proud father of Grace Comerford, currently a Berkeley Regents & Chancellor's scholar and author of five books. He lives on Marco Island, Florida and is writing about his climate ride along America's coasts.
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    • An Astonishing Year Inside Traveling Carnivals at State Fairs & Festivals: Hitchhiking from California to New York, Alaska to Mexico
    • Written by: Michael Sean Comerford
    • Narrated by: Michael Sean Comerford
    • Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 2021-02-18
    • Language: English
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