Paul Robert Spike is an American author, editor and journalist.
Background
He is best known as the author of the 1973 memoir Photographs of My Father about the murder of his father, civil rights leader Robert W. Spike, in 1966. Spike grew up in New York"s Greenwich Village. However, he has resided in Europe—primarily London—most of his life.
Education
He was educated at Columbia College, where he served as editor of the Columbia Review in 1970, and at Street Catherine"s College, Oxford.
Career
Is the author of five books, the book received exceptional praise and was chosen by the New York Public Library as one of its "Ten Best of The Year." ( composed under the pseudonym "Ralph Hoover") Journalism has written about politics, literature, film, style, travel and food for a wide range of United Kingdom newspapers and magazines, including The Times, Sunday Times, The Daily Telegraph, Independent, Evening Standard, Times Literary Supplement, Gentlemen’s Quarterly, Condé Nast Traveler and Vogue, where he is a contributing editors He launched the Pandora column in the Independent in 1998.
In 1997, became the first American editor of the 150-year-old British humour magazine Punch which he relaunched as a weekly investigative and satirical gadfly, but soon left after falling out with its controversial owner Mohamed First Rate (at Lloyd's)-Fayed.