Jeffrey Kluger
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{{Short description|Senior writer at Time magazine}}
Jeffrey Kluger (born 1954) is an American editor at large at Time magazine and author of thirteen books on various topics, such as The Narcissist Next Door (2014); Splendid Solution: Jonas Salk and the Conquest of Polio (2005); The Sibling Effect (2011); and Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13 (1994). The latter work was the basis for Ron Howard's film Apollo 13 (1995). He is also the author of two novels for young adults: Nacky Patcher and the Curse of the Dry-Land Boats (2007) and Freedom Stone (2011), and one novel for adults—"Holdout" (2021).
Early life and education
Jeffrey Kluger was born in 1954 to a Jewish Family. Kluger attended Pikesville High School in Pikesville, Maryland, a northwest suburb of Baltimore.{{citation needed|date=July 2013}} He attended the University of Maryland and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science in 1976, and the University of Baltimore Law School, where he earned a Juris Doctor degree in 1979.{{citation needed|date=February 2015}} He is a licensed attorney, and was admitted to the state bar in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Career
From July 1987 to September 1996, Kluger was a staff writer for Discover magazine, writing the humor column "Light Elements".[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1511/is_n9_v17/ai_18577868 "Good humor - Light Elements columnist Jeff Kluger is leaving Discover magazine"]{{dead link|date=April 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, editorial by Paul Hoffman, Discover, September 1996. Online at Findarticles.com, retrieved June 4, 2008. He also worked as a writer and editor for The New York Times Business World Magazine, Family Circle magazine, Science Digest, and The Soho Weekly News.
Kluger began his work with Time magazine in 1996 specializing in science coverage. He was named a senior writer in 1998, and Editor at Large in 2014. During his tenure at Time, Kluger has written articles covering the Mars Pathfinder landing and the 2003 Columbia disaster.{{citation needed|date=July 2013}} He is the author or co-author of more than 45 cover stories, including Time's coverage of the Oklahoma tornadoes of 2013, the Fukushima disaster in 2011, the battle to eradicate polio (2011) and the developing science of caring for premature babies (2014).
Kluger has authored numerous books, most notably Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13 (October 1994), with coauthor Jim Lovell. Lost Moon would become the basis for the Ron Howard film Apollo 13 (1995) starring Tom Hanks. Kluger would later be a technical consultant for, and appear in, the movie Apollo 13: The IMAX Experience.{{citation needed|date=July 2013}}
Kluger has taught journalism at New York University.[https://web.archive.org/web/20040319102859/http://www.time.com/time/2004/obesity/speakers/kluger.html "Jeffrey Kluger"], speaker profile, Time. Retrieved July 7, 2009.
Awards and honors
In 2001, the Overseas Press Club of America awarded Kluger and Michael Lemonick the Whitman Bassow Award for "best reporting in any medium on international environmental issues" for their work on global warming.{{cite news|url=https://www.opcofamerica.org/awards/whitman-bassow-award-2001|journal=Overseas Press Club of America Website|year=2001|title=The Whitman Bassow Award 2001}}
Bibliography
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- {{cite book |title=The Apollo adventure : the making of the Apollo Space Program and the movie Apollo 13 |location=New York |publisher=Pocket Books |year=1995 }}
- {{cite journal |date=February 1996 |title=Dr. Sigmund Doolittle |department=Light Elements |journal=Discover |volume=17 |issue=2 |pages=84–87 |url=https://www.discovermagazine.com/mind/dr-sigmund-doolittle |url-access=limited }}
- {{cite journal |date=April 1996 |title=CIA ESP |department=Light Elements |journal=Discover |volume=17 |issue=4 |pages=34, 37–38 |url=https://www.discovermagazine.com/mind/cia-esp |url-access=limited }}
- {{cite book|title=Journey Beyond Selene: Remarkable Expeditions Past Our Moon and to the Ends of the Solar System|date=July 1999|isbn=0-684-84765-5|url=https://archive.org/details/journeybeyondsel00klug}}
- {{cite book |title=Moon Hunters: NASA's Remarkable Expeditions to the Ends of the Solar System|date=July 2001|isbn=978-0-684-86559-1|url=https://archive.org/details/moonhunters00jeff |last1=Kluger |first1=Jeffrey |publisher=Simon and Schuster }}
- {{cite book|title=Splendid Solution: Jonas Salk and the Conquest of Polio |url=https://archive.org/details/splendidsolution00klug|url-access=registration|date= January 2005|isbn= 978-0-399-15216-0}}
- {{cite book |title=Nacky Patcher & the Curse of the Dry-Land Boats|date=June 2007|isbn=978-0-399-24604-3|url=https://archive.org/details/nackypatchercur00klug |last1=Kluger |first1=Jeffrey }} (A children's book)
- {{cite book |title=Simplexity: Why Simple Things Become Complex (and How Complex Things Can be Made Simple) |publisher= Hyperion |date= June 3, 2008|isbn= 978-1-4013-0301-3 }}
- {{cite book|title=The Sibling Effect: What the Bonds Among Brothers and Sisters Reveal About Us|publisher=Riverhead Hardcover|edition=4th Printing|date=September 15, 2011|isbn=1594488312|url=https://archive.org/details/siblingeffectwha00klug}}
- {{cite book |title=Apollo 8: The Thrilling Story of the First Mission to the Moon |year=2017 |publisher=Henry Holt |ISBN=9781627798327}}
- {{cite book |title=The narcissist next door |year=2014}}
- {{cite journal |date=March 2–9, 2020 |title=TheBrief TIME with ... Brian Greene |journal=Time Magazine |edition=International |volume=195 |issue=7-8 |pages=12–13 |url=https://time.com/5787436/brian-greene-string-theory-universe/ |url-access=limited }}Online version is titled "String theorist Brian Greene wants to help you understand the cold, cruel universe".
- {{cite book |title=Holdout |year=2021}}
References
External links
- [http://jeffreykluger.com Official Website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170707070233/http://jeffreykluger.com/ |date=2017-07-07 }}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20080720020929/http://www.time.com/time/2004/obesity/speakers/kluger.html Kluger's biography at TIME Magazine's website]
- [http://www.lettersonpages.com/?p=46 Review of Simplexity at Letters On Pages]{{dead link|date=September 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
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