“As I was writing the final paragraphs, I had tears in my eyes, and my co-worker in the next office came by and said, ‘What’s with you?’ I said that working on this project brought me back to the time when my daughters were preschoolers and we would watch ‘Sesame Street’ on the couch together. I was realizing how great a debt we as parents owe to this show, that it touched so many people in so many ways.”
- Michael Davis on writing Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street
Michael Davis, author of Street Gang
AUTHOR/CO-EXECUTIVE PRODUCER, STREET GANG
Michael Davis has held an array of top leadership and creative positions at digital news sites, magazines, newspapers and broadcasting outlets. He was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University during the 1986-87 academic year. Later he wrote the New York Times Non-Fiction Best Seller “Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street” and is a co-executive producer of the feature-length documentary film adapted from the book.
He received his undergraduate degree at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a master’s in journalism at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, where he later taught as an adjunct professor. He describes himself as a storyteller who helps others become better storytellers.
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Sesame Street is the longest-running-and arguably most beloved- children’s television program ever created. Today, it reaches some six million preschoolers weekly in the United States and countless others in 140 countries around the world.
Street Gang is the compelling, comical, and inspiring story of a media masterpiece and pop-culture landmark. Television reporter and columnist Michael Davis-with the complete participation of Joan Ganz Cooney, one of the show’s founders-unveils the idealistic personalities, decades of social and cultural change, stories of compassion and personal sacrifice, and miraculous efforts of writers, producers, directors, and puppeteers that together transformed an empty soundstage into the most recognizable block of real estate in television history.
Carroll Spinney (Big Bird, Oscar the Grouch) and Michael Davis (Author)
