Born | 1955 (age 68–69) |
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Occupation | Author, professor, journalist |
Alma mater | University of Arkansas (MFA) [1] |
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joejacksonbooks |
Joe Jackson (born 1955) is an American author of seven nonfiction books, including The Thief at the End of the World: Rubber, Power, and the Seeds of Empire, [2] (a Time magazine Top Ten Books of 2008 selection) [3] and Black Elk: The Life of an American Visionary, which was first published by Macmillan imprint Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2016 [4]
His book Black Elk received multiple awards and acclaimed reviews, [4] [5] including the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography [6] and won the Society of American Historians' Francis Parkman Prize. [7] [8]
In 2016, Jackson was named the Mina Hohenberg Darden Professor of Creative Writing at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. He was preceded by Philip Roth author Blake Bailey. [9]
Non-fiction books
Novels
Joe Jackson, author of Black Elk: The Life of an American Visionary; Adam Hochschild, author of Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939; and Michael Hiltzik, author of Big Science: Ernest Lawrence and the Invention that Launched the Military-Industrial Complex, talked about writing history. They spoke at the 22nd annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books
Born | 1955 (age 68–69) |
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Occupation | Author, professor, journalist |
Alma mater | University of Arkansas (MFA) [1] |
Website | |
joejacksonbooks |
Joe Jackson (born 1955) is an American author of seven nonfiction books, including The Thief at the End of the World: Rubber, Power, and the Seeds of Empire, [2] (a Time magazine Top Ten Books of 2008 selection) [3] and Black Elk: The Life of an American Visionary, which was first published by Macmillan imprint Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2016 [4]
His book Black Elk received multiple awards and acclaimed reviews, [4] [5] including the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography [6] and won the Society of American Historians' Francis Parkman Prize. [7] [8]
In 2016, Jackson was named the Mina Hohenberg Darden Professor of Creative Writing at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. He was preceded by Philip Roth author Blake Bailey. [9]
Non-fiction books
Novels
Joe Jackson, author of Black Elk: The Life of an American Visionary; Adam Hochschild, author of Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939; and Michael Hiltzik, author of Big Science: Ernest Lawrence and the Invention that Launched the Military-Industrial Complex, talked about writing history. They spoke at the 22nd annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books