52 Millennium - A Marquis Who’s Who Magazine ARTS, MEDIA AND ENTERTAINMENT of his crime stories were optioned for films, including an exclusive story with Washington Post Pulitzer Prize-winning fabulist Janet Cooke. Since 1997, Mr. Sager has been a writer-at-large and then contributing editor for Esquire, doing dozens of celebrity profiles, true crime articles, essays, sports and political pieces. Of note, he is credited with establishing Esquire’s popular “What I’ve Learned” series. Mr. Sager has read and lectured at journalism schools across the U.S. and Europe, including six years at UC Irvine, where he helped to pioneer the school’s Literary Journalism program. He also served for many years as an adjunct professor at Goucher College’s low-residence MFA/creative nonfiction program. Mr. Sager holds a bachelor’s degree in history from Emory University. There, he played on the varsity soccer team, and was president of his fraternity, editor-in-chief of the literary magazine and managing editor of the newsweekly Emory Wheel. Called “the Beat poet of American journalism,” Mike Sager is well-regarded for his work as a writer, author and publisher. In 2012, he founded The Sager Group LLC, which has published some 150 books to date. Over five decades, Mr. Sager wrote for The Washington Post, Rolling Stone, GQ and Esquire. In 2010, he accepted the National Magazine Award for profile writing from the American Society of Magazine Editors. More than 30 of his articles have been optioned for or inspired movies and documentaries, including “Boogie Nights” with Mark Wahlberg, “Wonderland” with Val Kilmer and “Veronica Guerin” with Cate Blanchett. In 1978, after three weeks of classes, Mr. Sager quit Georgetown University Law Center and began his career at The Washington Post as a copyboy. Eleven months later, he was promoted to staff writer by the Post’s then-metro editor, Bob Woodward. Mr. Sager left the newspaper in 1984 and became a contributing editor at Rolling Stone, where he combined investigative journalism with an anthropological approach. As a reporter deeply immersed in alternative cultures around the world, his stories helped readers understand diverse – and often misunderstood – communities. Thereafter, Mr. Sager worked for six years as a writer-at-large for GQ, during which time several MICHAEL A. “MIKE” SAGER EDITOR, PUBLISHER The Sager Group LLC La Jolla, CA
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