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Joe Jackson (writer)

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Jackson in Virginia Beach in 2021
Jackson in Virginia Beach in 2021
Born1955 (age 68–69)
OccupationAuthor, professor, journalist
Alma materUniversity of Arkansas (MFA)[1]
Website
joejacksonbooks.com

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]

Awards and honors

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Bibliography

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Non-fiction books

  • Dead Run: The Shocking Story of Dennis Stockton and Life on Death Row in America with William Burke Jr. (Canongate, 1999, ISBN 9780862419325; reprint: Times/Henry Holt, 1999, ISBN 0-8129-3206-4)[11]
  • Leavenworth Train: A Fugitive's Search for Justice in the Vanishing West (Basic Books, 2001, ISBN 9780786708970)[12]
  • A Furnace Afloat: The Wreck of the Hornet and the Harrowing 4,300-mile of its Survivors (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2003, ISBN 9780297846185; also Free Press, 2003, ISBN 0-7432-3037-X)[13]
  • A World on Fire: A Heretic, an Aristocrat, and the Race to Discover Oxygen (Viking, 2005, ISBN 0-670-03434-7)[14]
  • The Thief at the End of the World: Rubber, Power, and the Seeds of Empire (Viking, 2008, ISBN 9780670018536, ISBN 9781101202692 (e-book))[15][16]
  • Atlantic Fever: Lindbergh, His Competitors, and the Race to Cross the Atlantic (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012, ISBN 978-0-374-10675-1)[17]
  • Black Elk: The Life of an American Visionary (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016, ISBN 9780374253301)[4]

Novels

References

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  1. ^ "Joe Jackson - Biography, or "What Little is Known"". Joe Jackson official website. Retrieved January 26, 2023.
  2. ^ McDonald, Alyssa (October 24, 2009). "The Thief at the End of the World by Joe Jackson | Book Review". The Guardian. Retrieved January 25, 2023.
  3. ^ Grossman, Lev (November 3, 2008). "The Top 10 Everything of 2008". Time. ISSN 0040-781X. Retrieved January 25, 2023.
  4. ^ a b c "Black Elk". Kirkus Reviews (published September 1, 2016). August 21, 2016. Retrieved January 26, 2023.
  5. ^ Reviews and press for Black Elk:
  6. ^ Maher, John (February 22, 2017). "PEN America Announces 2017 Literary Award Winners". Publishers Weekly.
  7. ^ "Cronon, Wilner, Jackson Win Society of American Historians Prizes". Publishers Weekly. May 25, 2017.
  8. ^ "Black Elk Biography Continues to Rack up National Accolades". Old Dominion University. June 21, 2017. Retrieved January 25, 2023.
  9. ^ Old Dominion University articles:
  10. ^ "Category List – Best Fact Crime". Edgar Awards. Select: Award Year, 2002. Retrieved January 26, 2023.
  11. ^ "Dead Run". Kirkus Reviews (published October 1, 2000). May 20, 2010. Retrieved January 26, 2023.
  12. ^ "Leavenworth Train". Kirkus Reviews (published July 15, 2001). May 20, 2010. Retrieved January 26, 2023.
  13. ^ "A Furnace Afloat". Kirkus Reviews (published July 15, 2003). May 20, 2010. Retrieved January 26, 2023.
  14. ^ "A World on Fire". Kirkus Reviews (published August 15, 2005). May 20, 2010. Retrieved January 26, 2023.
  15. ^ "Review: The Thief at the End of the World by Joe Jackson". The Telegraph. September 27, 2008.
  16. ^ Pain, Stephanie (April 2, 2008). "Review: The Thief at the End of the World by Joe Jackson". New Scientist.
  17. ^ "Atlantic Fever". Kirkus Reviews (published March 15, 2012). March 5, 2012. Retrieved January 26, 2023.
  18. ^ "How I Left the Great State of Tennessee and Went on to Better Things". Publishers Weekly. March 2004. Retrieved January 26, 2023.
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