I am curious about what writers influenced Joseph Mitchell. I am writing a report about Mitchell and would like to connect his style of writing to...

Joseph Mitchell (July 27, 1908 – May 24, 1996) began his career as a journalist working for such newspapers as the New York Herald Tribune. This meant that much of his style was influenced by the newsroom, causing his writing to be vivid and concise, and tending to cluster important points towards the beginning of a story.

In 1938, Mitchell gained a permanent position at The New Yorker, a magazine that had a strong house...

Joseph Mitchell (July 27, 1908 – May 24, 1996) began his career as a journalist working for such newspapers as the New York Herald Tribune. This meant that much of his style was influenced by the newsroom, causing his writing to be vivid and concise, and tending to cluster important points towards the beginning of a story.

In 1938, Mitchell gained a permanent position at The New Yorker, a magazine that had a strong house style, in part the creation of its storied editor, Harold Ross. Mitchell would have been influenced by other New Yorker writers such as E. B. White, who shared a characteristic style of strongly descriptive long form non-fiction. 

In his journalistic assignments, Mitchell covered Harlem, and thus would have known and been influenced by the Harlem Renaissance. He also admired James Joyce's Ulysses for its portrayal of the panoply of urban life. 

For your project, I suspect the most interesting context in which to write about him is as part of the tradition surrounding the New Yorker.