Jake Halpern
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Jake Halpern (b. 1975) is an American writer, commentator, and radio producer.
He was born in Buffalo, New York, where he attended City Honors School. Halpern later attended Yale University where he received an undergraduate degree in 1997. He has written for The New York Times, The New Yorker, the New Republic, LA Weekly, Outside, Boston Magazine and other publications.
Halpern is also a commentator and a freelance producer for National Public Radio's All Things Considered.
His first book, Braving Home (ISBN 0-618-44662-1), considered the lives of Americans who actively chose to live in or near danger places like volcanoes. His new book, Fame Junkies (ISBN 0-618-45369-5), considers the psychological underpinnings of celebrity obsession. Currently, he is living in Shiprock, New Mexico on a Navajo reservation where he is at work on his third book.
He is married to Kasia Lipska.
[edit] Works
- Braving Home: Dispatches from the Underwater Town, the Lava-Side Inn, and Other Extreme Locales, nonfiction (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2003)
- Fame Junkies: The Hidden Truths behind America's Favorite Addiction, nonfiction (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2007)
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[edit] References
Source: Contemporary Authors Online. The Gale Group, 2005.
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