Neumann, Jeff

PERSONAL:

Male.

ADDRESSES:

Home—New York, NY.

CAREER:

Co-owner of a baseball T-shirt company, 1999-2003; Humanitarian Aid Network of Distribution in Baghdad, Iraq, manager, 2003-04.

WRITINGS:

(With Romy Ruth) The Naturalist Collector: The Best Book on Card Collecting, Rockefeller (Naples, FL), 1994.

(With Ray LeMoine and Donovan Webster) Babylon by Bus; or, The True Story of Two Friends Who Gave Up Their Valuable Franchise Selling Yankees Suck T-Shirts at Fenway to Find Meaning and Adventure in Iraq, Where They Became Employed by the Occupation in Jobs for Which They Lacked Qualification and Witnessed Much That Amazed and Disturbed Them, Penguin Press (New York, NY), 2006.

ADAPTATIONS:

Babylon by Bus was adapted as a sound recording, Penguin Audio, 2006; USA Network plans to adapt the book for television.

SIDELIGHTS:

For Sidelights, see LeMoine, Ray.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Booklist, July 1, 2006, review of Babylon by Bus; or, The True Story of Two Friends Who Gave Up Their Valuable Franchise Selling Yankees Suck T-Shirts at Fenway to Find Meaning and Adventure in Iraq, Where They Became Employed by the Occupation in Jobs for Which They Lacked Qualification and Witnessed Much That Amazed and Disturbed Them, p. 24.

California Bookwatch, October, 2006, review of Babylon by Bus.

Entertainment Weekly, August 4, 2006, Jennifer Reese, "Mixed Baghdad," review of Babylon by Bus, p. 70.

Kirkus Reviews, May 15, 2006, review of Babylon by Bus, p. 507.

Library Journal, July 1, 2006, Edwin B. Burgess, review of Babylon by Bus, p. 95.

Phoenix News, August 14, 2006, "From ‘Yankees Suck’ to ‘Wow, We Suck.’"

Publishers Weekly, May 29, 2006, review of Babylon by Bus, p. 50.

ONLINE

AlterNet,http://www.alternet.org/ (August 25, 2006), Michael Slenske, "Partying in Baghdad," interview with Ray LeMoine and Jeff Neumann.

Outside Online,http://outside.away.com/ (March 2, 2007), "Back of the Bus: Q&A with Ray LeMoine and Jeff Neumann, Authosr of Babylon by Bus."