Jonathan Rosen
American author
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Jonathan Rosen is an American author and editor.
Jonathan Rosen | |
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| Education | Yale University (BA) University of California, Berkeley |
| Occupations | Author, editor |
| Employer(s) | The Jewish Daily Forward, Nextbook, The Free Press |
| Notable work | Joy Comes in the Morning (2004), The Best Minds (2023) |
Education
Rosen graduated from Yale and began graduate studies working towards a PhD in English at the University of California, Berkeley.[1] He dropped out of graduate school to become a writer.[1]
Career
In 1990 Rosen was hired by Seth Lipsky at The Jewish Daily Forward to create an arts section of the paper's then newly editorially independent English language edition.[2] He held the job for 10 years.[1] As of 2007, he was editorial director of Nextbook.[1]
Rosen's novel Joy Comes in the Morning (2004) features a 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.[3]
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 graduate with schizophrenia who killed his fiancée in 1998 during a psychotic episode.[4] The book was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize[5] and has received high critical acclaim.[6][7][8][4]
In August 2024, Rosen was hired as an editor with The Free Press.[9]
Personal life
He lives in Manhattan with his wife, a Conservative rabbi, and their daughters.[10]
Bibliography
- Rosen, Jonathan (1997). Eve's apple : a novel. New York: Random House. ISBN 9780679448167.
- The Life of the Skies: Birding at the End of Nature MacMillan, 2008.[11][12]
- The Talmud and the Internet : a journey between worlds, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000. (0374272387)
- Joy comes in the morning, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004. (0374180261)[13]
- — (January 6, 2014). "The birds : why the passenger pigeon became extinct". The Critics. Books. The New Yorker. Vol. 89, no. 43. pp. 62–67.
- — (April 18, 2023). The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions (1st ed.). Penguin Press. ISBN 978-1594206573.