Speaker Biographies
BACK TO LIST- Elin McCoy
ELIN McCOY, a wine writer for Bloomberg, Shattered, and Food & Wine, is author of The Emperor of Wine: The Rise of Robert M. Parker Jr. and the Reign of American Taste. (Ecco/Harper Collins). Elin met Parker in 1981 when she was his first magazine editor, and she has followed his extraordinary rise ever since. She is fascinated with the written word and with the wine industry as history and as it is active now. She is also interested in just elements of a fine book as the glossary and bibliography.
From Jared Wunsch, American Library Association:
"… More broadly, as McCoy shows, the influence of American consumers and critics on the world wine industry (traditionally dominated by the French) has grown by leaps and bounds. It is in tackling these broader themes that McCoy really shines: Parker as a man is mostly remarkable for his ordinariness, and McCoy occasionally overreaches in trying to dramatize the quotidian. She tells the larger story with panache and fairness, though, and has written a book that every oenophile should read."
