The short profile is a form that I really love.  I was lucky to do over 60 of these for Open Road Integrated Media (list of authors below).  While these excerpts apply to authors and books my familiarity with this genre can be applied to individuals, issues and topics, finding a way to effectively get to the core of a story in a short amount of time.  I can provide links to the full version of a variety of profiles upon request. 

Authors and books profiled inlcude:  Lawrence Block -  Stanley Elkin - Albert Einstein - James Gleick (Genius & Chaos: The Making of a New Science) - Michael Murphy - Ira Levin - Susan Isaacs - Susan Morse - Hubert Selby, Jr. - Howard Fast - Go The F**ck To Sleep - Making of Go The F**ck To Sleep - Natalie Goldberg - Harold Evans - Bette Green - Tovar Cerulli - Michael Chabon - Mohammed Ali - TJ English - Scales to Scalpels - Luis J. Rodreguez - Pro Publica (profile of four investigative pieces) - Jimmy Breslin - Joyce Maynard - Ron Kovik - Brian Garfield - Stephen Rebello - Avery Corman - Ishmael Reed - Ronald J Glasser - John Lahr - Walker Percy - Sterling Lord - Alison Lurie - Oscar Gilbert - Allen Clark - William Broyles - Anna Maria Cardenalli - Malcolm Lowry - Fred Kaplan - Walter Moseley - Richard Rashke - Mary Gordon - ER Braithwaite - John Ashbery