David Shenk
American writer, lecturer, and filmmaker
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David Shenk is an American writer, lecturer, and songwriter.
David Shenk | |
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| Alma mater | Brown University |
| Occupations | Writer, lecturer, songwriter, author |
He has contributed to National Geographic,[1] Slate,[2] The New York Times,[3] Gourmet,[4] Harper's,[5] Wired,[6] The New Yorker,[7] The New Republic,[8] The Nation,[9] The American Scholar,[10] NPR[11] and PBS. In mid-2009, he joined The Atlantic as a correspondent.[12] He is a 1988 graduate of Brown University.
Shenk was also a panelist on the VH1 music review television series Four on the Floor.[13]
Books
Shenk has published the following books:
- Skeleton Key: A Dictionary For Deadheads (1994) (Co-written with Steve Silberman)
- Data Smog: Surviving the Information Glut (1997)[14]
- The End of Patience: More Notes of Caution on the Information Revolution (1999)
- The Forgetting: Alzheimer's, Portrait of An Epidemic (2001)[15]
- The Immortal Game: A History of Chess (2006)[16]
- The Genius In All Of Us: Why Everything You've Been Told About Genetics, Talent, and IQ Is Wrong (2010)
Films
In 2004, PBS broadcast the Emmy award-winning "The Forgetting," which was inspired by Shenk's book of the same name.[17] The film was directed by Elizabeth Arledge.[18] Shenk appeared in the film and served as a writer and consultant.[19][20]
In 2006, "The Forgetting" was featured on-screen and read aloud in the Sarah Polley film Away From Her. Polley said that the book was "hugely influential" to her in making the film.[21][22]
In 2007, Shenk wrote, produced and directed four short films on Alzheimer's disease.[23]
Awards and honors
- 1995: Fellow, Freedom Forum Media Studies Center at Columbia University[24]
- 1997: Finalist, McGannon Award for Social and Ethical Relevance in Communication Policy[25]
- 1998: Fellow, The Japan Society[26]
- 2000: Named one of "10 Masters of the New Economy" by CIO magazine.
- 2001: The Forgetting awarded First Prize, British Medical Association's Popular Medical Book Awards[27]
- 2004: Shenk's original term "data smog" added to the Oxford English Dictionary[28]
- 2006: The Immortal Game picked as a Globe and Mail [29] Top Book of 2006 and Toronto Star Top 100 Book of 2006[30]