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]
 Jackson in Virginia Beach in 2021 | |
| Born | 1955 (age 68–69) |
| Occupation | Author, professor, journalist |
| Alma mater | University of Arkansas (MFA)[1] |
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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 edit
- Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Fact Crime nomination for Leavenworth Train, 2002[10]
- National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography nomination for Black Elk, 2016
- Francis Parkman Prize for Black Elk, 2017
- PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography for Black Elk, 2017
Bibliography edit
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
- How I Left the Great State of Tennessee and Went on to Better Things (Carroll and Graf, 2004, ISBN 978-0-7867-1284-7[18]
References edit
- ^ "Joe Jackson - Biography, or "What Little is Known"". Joe Jackson official website. Retrieved January 26, 2023.
- ^ McDonald, Alyssa (October 24, 2009). "The Thief at the End of the World by Joe Jackson | Book Review". The Guardian. Retrieved January 25, 2023.
- ^ Grossman, Lev (November 3, 2008). "The Top 10 Everything of 2008". Time. ISSN 0040-781X. Retrieved January 25, 2023.
- ^ a b c "Black Elk". Kirkus Reviews (published September 1, 2016). August 21, 2016. Retrieved January 26, 2023.
- ^ Reviews and press for Black Elk:
- "Black Elk: The Life of an American Visionary by Joe Jackson". Publishers Weekly (published November 2016). September 26, 2016. Retrieved January 26, 2023.
- Panel Discussion on History. Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. April 22, 2017. Retrieved January 25, 2023 – via C-SPAN.
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
- Hertzel, Laurie (November 18, 2016). "Review: 'Black Elk: The Life of an American Visionary,' by Joe Jackson". Star Tribune. Retrieved January 25, 2023.
- Guinn, Jeff (November 24, 2016). "A new biography goes far beyond 'Black Elk Speaks'". Dallas Morning News. Retrieved January 25, 2023.
- Treuer, David (November 4, 2016). "The illuminating life of a native-American spiritual leader". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved January 25, 2023.
- Tuttle, Kate (November 23, 2016). "Fresh looks at Black Elk, JFK, and table manners". The Boston Globe. Retrieved January 26, 2023.
- ^ Maher, John (February 22, 2017). "PEN America Announces 2017 Literary Award Winners". Publishers Weekly.
- ^ "Cronon, Wilner, Jackson Win Society of American Historians Prizes". Publishers Weekly. May 25, 2017.
- ^ "Black Elk Biography Continues to Rack up National Accolades". Old Dominion University. June 21, 2017. Retrieved January 25, 2023.
- ^ Old Dominion University articles:
- Robinson, Tom (March 9, 2016). "Local Author Joe Jackson Named Mina Hohenberg Darden Chair in Creative Writing". Old Dominion University (Press release). Retrieved January 25, 2023.
- "Author Blake Bailey to Depart Hohenberg Darden Chair in Creative Writing". Old Dominion University (Press release). March 17, 2016.
- ^ "Category List – Best Fact Crime". Edgar Awards. Select: Award Year, 2002. Retrieved January 26, 2023.
- ^ "Dead Run". Kirkus Reviews (published October 1, 2000). May 20, 2010. Retrieved January 26, 2023.
- ^ "Leavenworth Train". Kirkus Reviews (published July 15, 2001). May 20, 2010. Retrieved January 26, 2023.
- ^ "A Furnace Afloat". Kirkus Reviews (published July 15, 2003). May 20, 2010. Retrieved January 26, 2023.
- ^ "A World on Fire". Kirkus Reviews (published August 15, 2005). May 20, 2010. Retrieved January 26, 2023.
- ^ "Review: The Thief at the End of the World by Joe Jackson". The Telegraph. September 27, 2008.
- ^ Pain, Stephanie (April 2, 2008). "Review: The Thief at the End of the World by Joe Jackson". New Scientist.
- ^ "Atlantic Fever". Kirkus Reviews (published March 15, 2012). March 5, 2012. Retrieved January 26, 2023.
- ^ "How I Left the Great State of Tennessee and Went on to Better Things". Publishers Weekly. March 2004. Retrieved January 26, 2023.