Winik biography
- Jay Winik (born February 8, 1957) is a New York Times best-selling author and American historian who is best known for his book April 1865: The Month That.
- Jay Winik is a New York Times best-selling author and American historian who is best known for his book April 1865: The Month That Saved America.
- Jay Winik, one of the nation's leading historians, is renowned for his gifted and creative approaches to history.
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Life Story
Bio & bibliography
I was born in Manhattan in 1958 and raised on the Jersey shore. I graduated from Brown in 1978 and got my MFA from Brooklyn College in 1983.
Throughout my childhood and into my twenties, I wrote poetry. Some of it was published in two small-press books, Nonstop (Cedar Rock, 1981) and BoyCrazy (Slough Press, 1986). In the late eighties—by which time I was living in Austin, Texas with my first husband, Tony—I began writing personal essays.
The essays first appeared in The Austin Chronicle. Then John Burnett, an Austin-based National Public Radio reporter who had been reading them in the paper, suggested that he put my name forward as a commentator for NPR. My first piece was on All Things Considered in May 1991.
In early '92, a literary agent contacted me. We put together a collection of my essays which became Telling (1994). That same winter, I received a fellowship in Creative Nonfiction from the National Endowment for the Arts. This gave me the confidence to quit my tech writing job of ten years. Soon I was freelancing f
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Jay Winik
American author and historian
Jay Winik (born February 8, 1957) is a New York Times best-selling author and American historian who is best known for his book April 1865: The Month That Saved America.[1]
Education and early career
Winik is an honors graduate of Yale College. He also holds an M.Sc. in economics from the London School of Economics with distinction and a Ph.D. from Yale University. He played on the Yale tennis team and was an editor of the Yale Daily News.[2][3]
He had a brief career in the U.S. government's foreign policy, involving civil wars around the globe, from the former Yugoslavia to El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Cambodia, including helping to create the United Nations plan to end the Cambodian Civil War. In 1991, he took up writing history full-time.[4]
Career
The Baltimore Sun has called Winik “one of the nation's leading public historians” and he is currently the inaugural Historian-in-Residence at the Council on Foreign Relations.[5] He is the author of the highly
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Marion Winik is the author of nine books, including The Big Book of the Dead (Counterpoint, 2019) and First Comes Love (Pantheon, 1996). Her essays have been published in The New York Times Magazine, The Sun, and elsewhere; her column at BaltimoreFishbowl.com has been running since 2011. A professor at the University of Baltimore, she reviews books for The Washington Post, Oprah Daily, and People, among others, and hosts the NPR podcast The Weekly Reader. She was a commentator on All Things Considered for fifteen years. She is the recipient of the 2023 National Book Critics Circle Service Award.
Bibliography
ABOVE US ONLY SKY (Counterpoint, 2020; Seal Press, 2005)
THE BIG BOOK OF THE DEAD (Counterpoint, 2019)
THE BALTIMORE BOOK OF THE DEAD (Counterpoint, 2018)
HIGHS IN THE LOW FIFTIES (Globe Pequot Press, 2013)
THE GLEN ROCK BOOK OF THE DEAD (Counterpoint, 2008)
RULES FOR THE UNRULY (Simon and Schuster, 2001)
THE LUNCH-BOX CHRONICLES (Pantheon, 1998)
FIRST COMES LOVE
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