Joe Jackson (writer)

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{{Short description|American author}}

Joe Jackson (born 1955) is an American author of seven nonfiction books, including The Thief at the End of the World: Rubber, Power, and the Seeds of Empire,{{Cite news |last=McDonald |first=Alyssa |date=October 24, 2009 |title=The Thief at the End of the World by Joe Jackson {{!}} Book Review |language=en |work=The Guardian |url=http://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/oct/25/the-thief-end-world-jackson |access-date=January 25, 2023}} (a Time magazine Top Ten Books of 2008 selection){{Cite magazine |last=Grossman |first=Lev |date=November 3, 2008 |title=The Top 10 Everything of 2008 |magazine=Time |url=https://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1855948_1864143_1864145,00.html |access-date=January 25, 2023 |issn=0040-781X}} and Black Elk: The Life of an American Visionary, which was first published by Macmillan imprint Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2016

His book Black Elk received multiple awards and acclaimed reviews,Reviews and press for Black Elk:

• {{Cite news |date=September 26, 2016 |title=Black Elk: The Life of an American Visionary by Joe Jackson |work=Publishers Weekly |publication-date=November 2016 |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780374253301 |access-date=January 26, 2023}}

• {{Cite AV media |url=https://www.c-span.org/video/?426915-4/authors-discuss-history-writing |title=Panel Discussion on History |date=April 22, 2017 |access-date=January 25, 2023 |quote=Joe Jackson, author of Black Elk: The Life of an American Visionary; Adam Hochschild, author of Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939; and Michael Hiltzik, author of Big Science: Ernest Lawrence and the Invention that Launched the Military-Industrial Complex, talked about writing history. They spoke at the 22nd annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books |via=C-SPAN |work=Los Angeles Times Festival of Books}}
• {{Cite news |last=Hertzel |first=Laurie |date=November 18, 2016 |title=Review: 'Black Elk: The Life of an American Visionary,' by Joe Jackson |work=Star Tribune |url=https://www.startribune.com/review-black-elk-the-life-of-an-american-visionary-by-joe-jackson/401781965/ |access-date=January 25, 2023}}
• {{Cite news |last=Guinn |first=Jeff |date=November 24, 2016 |title=A new biography goes far beyond 'Black Elk Speaks' |work=Dallas Morning News |url=https://www.dallasnews.com/arts-entertainment/books/2016/11/24/a-new-biography-goes-far-beyond-black-elk-speaks/ |access-date=January 25, 2023}}
• {{Cite news |last=Treuer |first=David |date=November 4, 2016 |title=The illuminating life of a native-American spiritual leader |newspaper=Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-illuminating-life-of-a-native-american-spiritual-leader/2016/11/04/60f0139a-7aa8-11e6-beac-57a4a412e93a_story.html |access-date=January 25, 2023 |issn=0190-8286}}
• {{Cite news |last=Tuttle |first=Kate |date=November 23, 2016 |title=Fresh looks at Black Elk, JFK, and table manners |work=The Boston Globe |url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/books/2016/11/23/fresh-looks-black-elk-jfk-and-table-manners/BYSGSHsNgjcMmbjWzFMVjN/story.html |access-date=January 26, 2023}}

including the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography{{Cite news |last=Maher |first=John |date=February 22, 2017 |title=PEN America Announces 2017 Literary Award Winners |work=Publishers Weekly |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/awards-and-prizes/article/72846-pen-america-announces-2017-literary-award-winners.html}} and won the Society of American Historians' Francis Parkman Prize.{{Cite news |date=May 25, 2017 |title=Cronon, Wilner, Jackson Win Society of American Historians Prizes |work=Publishers Weekly |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/newsbrief/index.html?record=1343}}{{Cite news |title=Black Elk Biography Continues to Rack up National Accolades | date=June 21, 2017 |work=Old Dominion University |url=http://www.odu.edu/news/2017/6/parkman_prize |access-date=January 25, 2023}}

In 2016, Jackson was named the Mina Hohenberg Darden Professor of Creative Writing at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. He was preceded by Philip Roth author Blake Bailey.Old Dominion University articles:

• {{Cite press release |title=Local Author Joe Jackson Named Mina Hohenberg Darden Chair in Creative Writing |date=March 9, 2016 |url=https://ww1.odu.edu/news/2016/3/new_hohenberg_darden |last1=Robinson |first1=Tom |access-date=January 25, 2023 |work=Old Dominion University}}
• {{Cite press release |title=Author Blake Bailey to Depart Hohenberg Darden Chair in Creative Writing |date=March 17, 2016 |url=http://www.odu.edu/news/2016/3/blake_bailey |work=Old Dominion University}}