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Nationality
  
United States

Role
  
Journalist

Name
  
Jeff Sharlet


Occupation
  
author

Alma mater
  
Hampshire College

Education
  
Hampshire College

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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

Residence
  
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States

Nominations
  
GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Magazine Article

Books
  
The Family: The Secret Fundame, Killing the Buddha, C Street: The Fundame, Untitled on Pete Seeger's I

Similar
  
Douglas Coe, Abraham Vereide, John Ensign

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Jeff Sharlet (born 1972) is an American journalist and author. He is a contributing editor for Harper's, Virginia Quarterly Review, and Rolling Stone. His work has also appeared in The New York Times Magazine, GQ, Esquire, Lapham's Quarterly, Oxford American, Bookforum, The Washington Post, Mother Jones, New York, Advocate, Guernica 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 Associate Professor of English at Dartmouth College. He is the recipient of the National Magazine Award for Reporting, the MOLLY National Journalism Prize, the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission's Outspoken Award, and the Military Religious Freedom Foundation's Thomas Jefferson Award.

Contents

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, and the former editor-in-chief of Pakn Treger, a journal published by the National Yiddish Book Center.

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Published books

  • In 2014 Yale University Press published Radiant Truths: Essential Dispatches, Reports, Confessions, and Other Essays on American Belief, edited by Jeff Sharlet. ISBN 0-3001-6921-3
  • 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
  • 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
  • In 2004 Free Press published Killing the Buddha: A Heretic's Bible, coauthored by Sharlet and Peter Manseau. ISBN 0-7432-3276-3
  • References

    Jeff Sharlet (writer) Wikipedia