Jeff Sharlet (writer)
| Jeff Sharlet | |
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| Born | 1972 |
| Residence | Brooklyn, New York |
| Nationality | United States |
| Alma mater | Hampshire College |
| Occupation | author |
| Employer | professor of literary journalism at Dartmouth College, contributing editor for Harper's and Rolling Stone, published by Free Press/Simon & Schuster, HarperCollins, Little, Brown, and W.W. Norton |
| Known for | books, magazine articles |
Jeff Sharlet (born 1972) is an American journalist and author. He is a contributing editor for Harper's and Rolling Stone. His work has also appeared in Lapham's Quarterly, Oxford American, The Washington Post, Mother Jones, New York, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Columbia Journalism Review, New Statesman, The Nation, The New Republic, Forward, Nerve, and The Baffler. He has taught at New York University and is Mellon Assistant Professor of English at Dartmouth College. He is the recipient of the Ivins National Journalism Prize and the Military Religious Freedom Foundation's Thomas Jefferson Award.
Sharlet is the co-creator of two online journals, Killing the Buddha, a literary magazine about religion, and The Revealer, a review of religion and media published by the New York University Center for Religion and Media, now edited by Ann Neumann, and the former editor-in-chief of Pakn Treger, a journal published by the National Yiddish Book Center.
Sharlet's mother, who raised him after his parents separated, was from a Pentecostal Christian background. His father is of Jewish background.[1][2][3]
Published books
- In 2011 W.W. Norton published Sweet Heaven When I Die: Faith, Faithlessness, and the Country In Between. The book investigates the margins of personal belief in America. ISBN 0-393-07963-5
- In 2010, Little Brown published C Street: The Fundamentalist Threat to American Democracy. ISBN 978-0-316-09107-7
- With Peter Manseau, Sharlet coauthored Killing the Buddha: A Heretic's Bible, which was named by Publishers Weekly as one of the ten best religion titles of 2004. Vanity Fair described it as "shot through with epiphanies and controversy." (Free Press, 2004) ISBN 0-7432-3276-3
- In 2008 HarperCollins published The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power. The book investigates the political power of The Family, a secretive association of Christian evangelicals. ISBN 0060559799-->
- In 2009 Beacon Press published Believer, Beware: First-Person Dispatches from the Margins of Faith, co-edited by Sharlet and Peter Manseau. ISBN 0-8070-7739-9
References
- ↑ Interview, Jeff Sharlet, Religion & Ethics Newsweekly, May 28, 2004
- ↑ Munro, Ian (2008-06-14). "For Christ's sake". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 2008-08-12.
- ↑ http://jeffsharlet.com/content/about-jeff-sharlet/
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