Paul Robert Spike is an American author, editor in chief and journalist.
His memoir Photographs of My Father (Knopf, 1973) is the most widely known; an autobiographical account of the murder of his father, civil rights leader Rev.
"[citation needed] His four other works include a collection of short stories, two political thrillers, and the cult novelization of Terry Gilliam's Jabberwocky which Spike composed under the pseudonym "Ralph Hoover".
[2] In 1997, Spike became the first American editor of the 150-year-old British humour magazine Punch which he relaunched as a weekly investigative and satirical gadfly,[3][4] but soon left.
[5] In 1970 Spike received the John Train Humor Prize awarded by The Paris Review.