John Pope, Author of the New Essay Collection,
Getting Of At Elysian Fields
About the Author
John Pope is a contributing writer for NOLA.com and The Times-Picayune in New Orleans, where he has turned the difficult chore of writing appropriate obituaries into an art form. His obituaries are, indeed, a great source of contemporary New Orleans history told through the lives of the City’s residents after death. University Press of Mississippi has just released a collection of these marvelous essays, with the title Getting Off At Elysian Fields. Pope was part of the newspaper’s team which won two Pulitzer Prizes, a George Polk Award, a National Headliner Award, and the Medill Award for Courage in Journalism for coverage of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath.
Pope, who grew up