Sebastian Junger
Autor von Der Sturm. Die letzte Fahrt der Andrea Gail.
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Sebastian Junger was born in 1962 in Belmont, Massachusetts. He received his BA degree from Wesleyan University in Cultural Anthropology in 1984. He is a freelance journalist who writes for numerous magazines, including Outside, American Heritage, Men's Journal, and the New York Times Magazine. As mehr anzeigen an underemployed journalist who assigned himself stories and worked as a stringer for the Associated Press in Bosnia, Junger was fascinated by the dangers that people face regularly while doing ordinary jobs. Junger was working as a climber for a tree removal service when the storm occurred that provided the inspiration for his first book. The Perfect Storm (1997) is a carefully researched account of the wreck of the swordfishing boat Andrea Gail, The wreck took place during what one meteorologist called a "perfect storm"--a storm with the worst possible conditions. In order to relate the story of a disaster that left no survivors and had no eyewitnesses, Junger used a combination of sound research, technical detail, and personal insight to reconstruct the final hours. After the publication of this book he was nicknamed the new Hemingway. In 2000, this book was made into a film starring George Clooney and Mark Wahlberg. He wrote several books such as War which is about his time spent with a U.S. Army platoon in Afghanistan. At the Sundance Film Festival in 2010 his documentary Restrepo won Grand Jury Prize for a domestic documentary. Junger's book, Tribe, made the New York Times Bestseller list in 2016. (Bowker Author Biography) weniger anzeigen
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Sea Stories Collection: "In the Heart of the Sea", "The Perfect Storm", "Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea" (2001) — Mitwirkender — 1 Exemplar
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The Book That Changed My Life: 71 Remarkable Writers Celebrate the Books That Matter Most to Them (2006) — Mitwirkender — 389 Exemplare
Why We Write: 20 Acclaimed Authors on How and Why They Do What They Do (2013) — Mitwirkender — 182 Exemplare
Überleben auf dem Wasser (Anthology, Auszüge aus div Erzählungen, s.u.) (1998) — Mitwirkender — 88 Exemplare
Fire Fighters: Stories of Survival from the Front Lines of Firefighting (2002) — Mitwirkender — 13 Exemplare
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- Junger, Sebastian
- Geburtstag
- 1962-01-17
- Geschlecht
- male
- Nationalität
- USA
- Geburtsort
- Belmont, Massachusetts, USA
- Wohnorte
- Belmont, Massachusetts, USA
- Ausbildung
- Wesleyan University (BA | Cultural Anthropology)
- Berufe
- Journalist
- Beziehungen
- Deghati, Reza (colleague)
- Organisationen
- Vanity Fair
- Preise und Auszeichnungen
- National Magazine Award
SAIS Novartis Prize for journalism - Kurzbiographie
- Sebastian Junger is a freelance journalist and award-winning author with expertise in covering dangerous work around the globe. He has reported from such places as Liberia, Sierra Leone, Kosovo, Kashmir, Cyprus, the American West and, most recently, Afghanistan.
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