Jonathan Rosen is an American author and editor.
Education
Rosen graduated from
Yale
Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wor ...
and began graduate studies working towards a PhD in English at the
University of California, Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...
.
He dropped out of graduate school to become a writer.
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Career
Rosen describes his "first real job" as being hired by Seth Lipsky
Seth Lipsky (born 1946) is the founder and editor of the ''New York Sun'', an independent conservative daily in New York City that ceased its print edition on September 30, 2008. Lipsky counts Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, Winston Churchill, ...
in 1990 to create an art section for ''The Jewish Daily Forward
''The Forward'' ( yi, פֿאָרווערטס, Forverts), formerly known as ''The Jewish Daily Forward'', is an American news media organization for a Jewish American audience. Founded in 1897 as a Yiddish-language daily socialist newspaper, '' ...
''.[ As of 2007 he was editorial director of the ]Nextbook
Nextbook is a nonprofit, Jewish organization founded in 2003 by Elaine Bernstein's Keren Keshet Foundation to promote Jewish literacy and support Jewish literature, culture and ideas. The organization sponsors public lectures, commissions books ...
.[
Rosen's ''Joy Comes in the Morning'' (2004) features the protagonist, Rabbi Deborah Green, who struggles with the perceptions of women rabbis. This work's inclusion of a woman rabbi is viewed as a significant development in American Jewish writings featuring women rabbis.][Zierler, W. (2006). A dignitary in the land? Literary representations of the American rabbi. ''AJS Review'', 30(2), 255-275.]
In April 2023, Rosen published ''The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions'', a memoir about his friendship with Michael Laudor, a Yale Law School
Yale Law School (Yale Law or YLS) is the law school of Yale University, a Private university, private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. It was established in 1824 and has been ranked as the best law school in the United States by ''U ...
graduate with schizophrenia
Schizophrenia is a mental disorder characterized by continuous or relapsing episodes of psychosis. Major symptoms include hallucinations (typically hearing voices), delusions, and disorganized thinking. Other symptoms include social withdra ...
who killed his fiancée in 1998 during a psychotic episode
Psychosis is a condition of the mind that results in difficulties determining what is real and what is not real. Symptoms may include delusions and hallucinations, among other features. Additional symptoms are incoherent speech and behavior t ...
.Pulitzer Prize
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and has received high critical acclaim.
Personal Life
Rosen is Jewish and keeps kosher. He describes having dyslexia. He is also a bird-watcher
Birdwatching, or birding, is the observing of birds, either as a recreational activity or as a form of citizen science. A birdwatcher may observe by using their naked eye, by using a visual enhancement device like binoculars or a telescope, b ...
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Media
A talk with Jonathan Rosen
Book Examines Connection Between Humans, Birds (National Public Radio)
Bibliography
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* ''The Life of the Skies: Birding at the End of Nature'' MacMillan, 2008.
References
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1963 births
Living people
American male writers
The New Yorker people
Yale University alumni