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Michael Katakis was born on 1952 in Chicago, Illinois, United States, is an An american non-fiction writer. Discover Michael Katakis's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 72 years old?
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Michael Katakis Height, Weight & Measurements
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Michael Katakis Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Michael Katakis worth at the age of 72 years old? Michael Katakis’s income source is mostly from being a successful writer. He is from United States. We have estimated Michael Katakis's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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Timeline
Michael Katakis (born 1952), is a writer, photographer, Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and manager of Ernest Hemingway's literary estate.
His photographs are represented in many institutions including the National Portrait Gallery (United States).
Katakis was born in Chicago, Illinois, an only child.
His father emigrated from Greece shortly after World War II.
His mother, who was the daughter of Greek immigrants, died when he was a boy.
Katakis began writing about 1975.
He later started taking photographs and has always considered himself "a writer who happens to take pictures."
He travelled extensively throughout the world, making contact with a wide range of cultures and geographic locations.
He visited many countries including China, West Africa, Cuba, Hungary, Morocco, Turkey, the United States, South Korea, the Philippines, Taiwan, Italy, Greece, England, France and Spain.
During this time he married Kris L. Hardin, an anthropologist, and they spent 25 years travelling together, collaborating on many projects and producing exhibitions and books derived from their work.
The book featured photographs from the projects 'The Vietnam Veterans Memorial', 'Troubled Land: 12 Days Across America' (a portrait of the US in the days after the September 11 attacks) and 'A Time and Place Before War', which documented life in Sierra Leone before the outbreak of civil war in 1991). Details of these projects and the time spent in Sierra Leone by Katakis and Hardin, were covered in the interviews.
The work of Michael Katakis has been translated into several languages including Greek, Bulgarian and Chinese and his photographs have been collected by institutions including the National Portrait Gallery in Washington D.C., the Victoria and Albert Museum, the British Library and Stanford University's Special Collections Department.
In 1999 Katakis was elected Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, and in 2011 was presented to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
In 2009 Michael Katakis and Kris L. Hardin donated thousands of pages and photographs of their work to the British Library.
The couple gave interviews, which were placed in the Oral History section of the library.
In 2011 an exhibition, 'Michael Katakis Photographs', was held in the Folio Gallery of the library to coincide with the publication of "Photographs and Words," authored by Katakis and Hardin.
In 2012 he was appointed Ambassador for the British Library and elected Director of Americans for the British Library.
