My name is John Hendel and I’m a writer and journalist living in St. Louis. This site features some of my published clips as well as my resume and a few words on my design experience. Any blogging I do happens elsewhere.
In the fall of 2009, I earned a Master of Arts in journalism from the University of Missouri. Narrative journalism has really captured my imagination in this past year, and I explored its potential in graduate-level journalism and English courses. I also completed a graduate thesis, for which I conducted quantitative research examining how snarkiness affects newsreaders.
I graduated from the University of Missouri in May of 2008 with bachelor’s degrees in magazine journalism and history. During my three undergrad years, I covered arts and business stories for our town’s newspaper and magazines, wrote for two semesters as a weekly columnist for our campus newspaper, led two environmental service trips, and wrote a 99-page honors history thesis on Dostoevsky and Russian radicalism.
In addition to my studies at the University of Missouri, I’ve also worked and studied abroad three times in the last four years. This past summer I spent five weeks in South Korea, where I taught English in a summer camp for Korean elementary school students. I lived in London during the spring semester of 2007 and interned for the international free expression magazine Index on Censorship. I spent a summer in Cuernavaca, Mexico during the country’s presidential election in the summer of 2006.
I was born in the city of St. Louis, Missouri on November 11th, 1986. I share that birthday with a couple of my favorite writers, Fyodor Dostoevsky and Kurt Vonnegut. Both my parents belonged to the Catholic clergy at one point or another before I came around, and I attended Catholic school until seventh grade, when (through a desegregation program) I transferred to magnet schools for the gifted.
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