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,'' (a ''Time'' magazine Top Ten Books of 2008 selection) and '' Black Elk: The Life of an American Visionary'', which was first published by Macmillan imprint Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2016 His book ''Black Elk'' received multiple awards and acclaimed reviews, including the

PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography The PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award is awarded by the PEN America PEN America (formerly PEN American Center), founded in 1922 and headquartered in New York City, is a nonprofit organization that works to defend and celebrate free expression i ...

and won the

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. In 2016, Jackson was named the Mina Hohenberg Darden Professor of Creative Writing at

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. He was preceded by ''

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'' author

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Awards and honors

* Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Fact Crime nomination for ''Leavenworth Train'', 2002 *

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nomination for ''Black Elk'', 2016 *

for ''Black Elk'', 2017 *

for ''Black Elk'', 2017

Bibliography

Non-fiction books * ''Dead Run: The Shocking Story of Dennis Stockton and Life on Death Row in America'' with William Burke Jr. (Canongate, 1999, ; reprint: Times/Henry Holt, 1999, ) * ''Leavenworth Train: A Fugitive's Search for Justice in the Vanishing West'' (Basic Books, 2001, ) * ''A Furnace Afloat: The Wreck of the Hornet and the Harrowing 4,300-mile of its Survivors'' (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2003, ; also Free Press, 2003, ) * ''A World on Fire: A Heretic, an Aristocrat, and the Race to Discover Oxygen'' (Viking, 2005, ) * ''The Thief at the End of the World: Rubber, Power, and the Seeds of Empire'' (Viking, 2008, , (e-book)) * ''Atlantic Fever: Lindbergh, His Competitors, and the Race to Cross the Atlantic'' (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012, ) * ''Black Elk: The Life of an American Visionary'' (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016, ) Novels * ''How I Left the Great State of Tennessee and Went on to Better Things'' (Carroll and Graf, 2004,

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Jackson, Joesph 1955 births 21st-century American non-fiction writers American male non-fiction writers American non-fiction crime writers Living people Old Dominion University faculty