Brendan I. Koerner

Koerner graduated from Yale University with a BA degree."Brendan I. Koerner." Contemporary Authors Online. Detroit: Gale, 2009. Biography In Context. Last accessed October 25, 2013. Gale Document Number: GALE|H1000188220 In college, he contributed to campus humor magazine The Yale Record.The Yale Record. New Haven: Yale Record. November 1992. p. 3.

Koerner's first journalism job out of school was at U.S. News & World Report as a researcher and fact checker, he eventually became senior editor.{{cite web |url=http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/articles/1718100/brendan-koerner |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029185800/http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/articles/1718100/brendan-koerner |url-status=dead |archive-date=2013-10-29 |title=Brendan Koerner |work=Adweek – Southeast Edition |author=Brett Forrest |date=1999-08-03 |volume=20 |issue=10 |page=12 |accessdate=October 24, 2013}} Koerner left USN&WR to become a freelance writer in 2000, and was a regular contributor to The New Republic, Mother Jones, Harper's Magazine, Legal Affairs, Washington Monthly, and The Christian Science Monitor.{{cite web |url=http://www.microkhan.com/about/ |title=About Brendan I. Koerner |work=Microkhan |author=Brendan I. Koerner |date= |accessdate=October 24, 2013}} He was also a columnist for Gizmodo.com, Slate.com, The New York Times Sunday Business section and the Village Voice (as "Mr. Roboto"). In addition, Koerner has served as a contributing editor to Wired. He has also published in magazines such as Details, Spin and Men's Journal. In 2006, Koerner edited the anthology The Best of Technology Writing which was positively reviewed in California BookwatchCalifornia Bookwatch, April 1, 2007, review of The Best of Technology Writing and SciTech Book News.SciTech Book News, March 1, 2007, review of The Best of Technology Writing

His first solo authored full length book, Now the Hell Will Start: One Soldier's Flight from the Greatest Manhunt of World War II, was published by Penguin Press in 2008. It is a non-fiction narrative investigating and recounting the story of Herman Perry, an African-American World War II soldier stationed in the China-Burma-India theatre of the war. Perry killed a white officer while helping construct the Ledo Road. He subsequently retreated into the Indo-Burmese wilderness and joined a tribe of the headhunting Nagas. The book was favorably reviewed.{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/10/AR2008071002338.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131017111527/http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2008-07-13/opinions/36803197_1_black-soldiers-world-war-ii-remarkable-story |url-status=live |archive-date=October 17, 2013 |title=Jonathan Yardley on 'Now the Hell Will Start' |newspaper=The Washington Post |author=Jonathan Yardley |date=July 13, 2008 |access-date=October 16, 2013}}{{cite web |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2008/07/a-wonderful-new-book-apos-now-the-hell-will-start-apos/8575/ |title=A wonderful new book: 'Now the Hell Will Start' |work=The Atlantic |author=James Fallows |date=July 21, 2008 |accessdate=October 16, 2013}}{{cite magazine |url=https://ew.com/article/2008/05/23/now-hell-will-start/ |title=Now the Hell Will Start |magazine=Entertainment Weekly |author=Michelle Kung |date=May 23, 2008 |access-date=October 16, 2013}}{{cite web |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/brendan-i-koerner/now-the-hell-will-start/ |title=Now the Hell Will Start |work=Kirkus Reviews |author=Staff writer |date=April 15, 2008 |accessdate=October 16, 2013}} In 2009, Spike Lee optioned the film rights and Lee commissioned Koerner to write a draft of the screenplay.{{cite web |url=https://variety.com/2009/film/news/spike-lee-to-produce-start-1117999464/ |title=Director grabs rights to WWII thriller |work=Variety |author=Marc Graser |date=February 2, 2009 |accessdate=October 16, 2013}}

In 2011, Koerner published Piano Demon: The Globetrotting, Gin-Soaked, Too-Short Life of Teddy Weatherford, the Chicago Jazzman Who Conquered Asia, it is about the jazz musician Teddy Weatherford.{{cite web |url=https://www.atavist.com/stories/piano-demon/ |title=Piano Demon |work=Atavist |author=Brendan I. Koerner |date= |accessdate=October 24, 2013}}

Koerner's third book, The Skies Belong to Us: Love and Terror in the Golden Age of Hijacking (2013) is a history of the "golden age" of skyjacking in the United States from the first incident in May 1961 through January 1973, when there were as many as one skyjacking a week or about 159 in total. The book looks at the causes of the epidemic, some of the more famous ones and follows in-depth the story of the longest-distance skyjacking in American history, involving Willie Roger Holder and Catherine Marie Kerkow, a young couple who took control of Western Airlines Flight 701 on June 2, 1972. The book was favorably reviewed including in The New York Times Book Review,{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/07/books/review/the-skies-belong-to-us-by-brendan-i-koerner.html |title=Theirs for the Taking |work=The New York Times Book Review |author=Benjamin Wallace-Wells |date=July 5, 2013 |accessdate=October 16, 2013}} The New York Times,{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/14/books/the-skies-belong-to-us-relates-a-1972-hijacking.html |title=Bonnie and Clyde, the Aerial Version |work=The New York Times |author=Dwight Garner |date=June 13, 2013 |accessdate=October 16, 2013}} The Washington Post,{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/book-review-the-skies-belong-to-us-love-and-terror-in-the-golden-age-of-hijacking-by-brendan-i-koerner/2013/07/12/05febe22-e7ef-11e2-aa9f-c03a72e2d342_story.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130717053231/http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-07-12/opinions/40532074_1_algeria-ex-soldier-nation |url-status=live |archive-date=July 17, 2013 |title=Book review: 'The Skies Belong to Us: Love and Terror in the Golden Age of Hijacking' by Brendan I. Koerner |newspaper=The Washington Post |author=Daniel Stashower |date=July 12, 2013 |access-date=October 16, 2013}} Los Angeles Times,{{cite web |url=https://www.latimes.com/books/la-xpm-2013-jun-20-la-ca-jc-brendan-koerner-the-skies-belong-to-us-20130623-story.html |title=Fly the unfriendly skies with 'The Skies Belong to Us' |work=Los Angeles Times |author=Héctor Tobar |date=June 20, 2013 |access-date=October 16, 2013}} The National (Abu Dhabi),{{cite web |url=http://www.thenational.ae/arts-culture/books/the-skies-belong-to-us-a-look-at-the-era-of-airline-hijackings |title=The Skies Belong to Us: a look at the era of airline hijackings |work=The National |location=UAE |author=Jamie Kenny |date=August 3, 2013 |accessdate=October 16, 2013}} SFGate,{{cite web |url=http://www.sfgate.com/books/article/The-Skies-Belong-to-Us-by-Brendan-Koerner-4636770.php |title='The Skies Belong to Us,' by Brendan Koerner |work=SFGate |author=Glenn C. Altschuler |date=June 28, 2013 |accessdate=October 16, 2013}} and Bookforum.{{cite web |url=http://www.bookforum.com/review/11897 |title=Terror in the Skies |work=Bookforum |author=Jordan Smith |date=July 2, 2013 |accessdate=October 16, 2013}}

Koerner is a fellow at the New America Foundation. In 2002, the Columbia Journalism Review named him one of its "Ten Young Writers on the Rise".{{cite web |url=http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/articles/7721328/ten-young-writers-rise |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029192612/http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/articles/7721328/ten-young-writers-rise |url-status=dead |archive-date=2013-10-29 |title=Ten Young Writers on the Rise |work=Columbia Journalism Review |author=Ilena Silverman |date=Nov–Dec 2002 |volume=41 |issue=4 |page=45 |accessdate=October 24, 2013}} In 2010, the New Haven Review included him in its list of "20 Non-fiction Writers Under 40".{{cite web |url=http://www.newhavenreview.com/index.php/2010/10/20-non-fiction-writers-under-40/ |title=20 Non-fiction Writers Under 40 |work=New Haven Review |author=Mark Oppenheimer |date=October 6, 2010 |accessdate=October 24, 2013}} In 2003, he won a National Headliner Award for feature writing.{{cite web |url=http://www.headlinerawards.org/Winners2003Print.html |title=National Headliner Awards 2003 |publisher=National Headliner Award |author= |date=2003 |accessdate=October 24, 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029195020/http://www.headlinerawards.org/Winners2003Print.html |archivedate=October 29, 2013 |df=mdy-all }} His work has been anthologized in Best American Science Writing (2003, "Disorders Made to Order") and Best American Science and Nature Writing (2003, "Embryo Police").

Brendan's father gave him the middle name Ian because he was a fan of Ian Fleming's James Bond movies.{{cite web |url=http://longform.org/posts/longform-podcast-49-brendan-i-koerner/ |title=Longform Podcast #49: Brendan I. Koerner |work=Longform |author=Evan Ratliff and Brendan I. Koerner |date= |accessdate=October 24, 2013}} Brendan is married, with a son and a daughter.

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• {{cite book |author=Koerner, Brendan I. |title=Now the hell will start : one soldier's flight from the greatest manhunt of World War II |location=New York |publisher=Penguin Press |date=2008 }}
• Piano Demon: The Globetrotting, Gin-Soaked, Too-Short Life of Teddy Weatherford, the Chicago Jazzman Who Conquered Asia (2011)
• The Skies Belong to Us: Love and Terror in the Golden Age of Hijacking (2013)
• {{cite journal |author=Koerner, Brandan I. |author-mask=1 |date=November 2021 |title=Blood and lies |journal=Wired |volume=29.11 |pages=54–67}}

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