Kathryn Schulz
Kathryn Schulz is an American journalist and author, and the former book critic for New York magazine. She joined The New Yorker as a staff writer in 2015.[1] Schulz won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing for her New Yorker article on a potential large earthquake in the Pacific Northwest.[2]
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| Born | Shaker Heights, Ohio |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Genre | Non-fiction |
Biography
Schulz was born and raised in Shaker Heights, Ohio. Schulz is the daughter of teacher Margot Schulz and lawyer Isaac Schulz.[3] Her sister is Laura Schulz. After graduating from Brown University in 1996, she moved to Portland, Oregon,[4] and lived there for a little less than four years.[5]
Her freelance writing has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Rolling Stone, The Nation, Foreign Policy, and The Boston Globe, among other publications. She also wrote "The Wrong Stuff",[6] a blog on Slate magazine, and contributes to the Freakonomics blog at The New York Times.
Schulz began her career as a journalist writing for Feed Magazine, an early online magazine published from 1995 to 2001. During the period from 2001 to 2006, she edited Grist an environmental magazine on the web. Before that she worked as a reporter and editor for The Santiago Times in Chile covering environmental, labor, and human rights issues. Schulz was a 2004 recipient of the Pew Fellowship in International Journalism (now the International Reporting Project), and has reported from throughout Central and South America, Japan and the Middle East.[7]
Schulz became a staff writer at The New Yorker in 2015.
Reviews
Reviewing her book Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error (2010), Dwight Garner wrote: "Ms. Schulz's book is a funny and philosophical meditation on why error is mostly a humane, courageous and extremely desirable human trait. She flies high in the intellectual skies, leaving beautiful sunlit contrails."[8] Daniel Gilbert described her as "a warm, witty and welcome presence who confides in her readers rather than lecturing them. It doesn't hurt that she combines lucid prose with perfect comic timing."[9]
Bibliography
Books
- Schulz, Kathryn (2010). Being wrong: adventures in the margin of error. Ecco/HarperCollins.
The Nation
| Date | Title |
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| 7 December 2004 | Being Left: Reflections on Love and Politics |
| 20 December 2005 | Brave Neuro World |
The Huffington Post
| Date | Title |
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| 20 November 2009 | Are Iraqis Undead? Why the Refugees in Damascus Are More Like Edward Cullen Than You Think |
| 18 March 2010 | Check, Please: Atul Gawande’s The Checklist Manifesto |
| 18 March 2010 | Billie Jean in Baghdad |
| 14 May 2010 | Michael Lewis’s The Big Short : Betting (Right) on Armageddon |
| 19 May 2010 | Five Lessons on Rightness From Michael Lewis’s The Big Short |
| 10 June 2010 | DeathWish Airways: Alan Greenspan and the 30% Chance of Error |
| 20 June 2010 | Who’s on Crack Now? Correcting the Record on “Crack Baby” Hysteria |
New York Magazine
The New Yorker
Other publications
| Date | Publication | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 22 August 2004 | The New York Times Magazine | Did Antidepressants Depress Japan? |
| 12 January 2010 | Foreign Policy | Life in Hell |
| 8 June 2010 | Freakonomics, New York Times Blog | Thanks for Admitting the Blindingly Obvious |
| 13 June 2010 | The Boston Globe | The Bright Side of Wrong |
| 28 July 2010 | Freakonomics, New York Times Blog | The United Mistakes of America |
Book reviews
| Date | Review article | Work(s) reviewed |
|---|---|---|
| 18 November 2003 | "Kathryn Schulz reviews Monster of God by David Quammen". Grist. 18 November 2003. Retrieved 2015-08-04. | Quammen, David (2003). Monster of God: the man-eating predator in the jungles of history and the mind. New York: W. W. Norton. ISBN 0393051404. |
References
- "Contributors: Kathryn Schulz", The New Yorker.
- "The 2016 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Feature Writing: Kathryn Schulz of The New Yorker". Columbia University. 2016. Retrieved November 7, 2016.
- "ISAAC SCHULZ's Obituary". The Plain Dealer. 2016-09-20.
- Center, Julianne (April 26, 2016). "In conversation: Kathryn Schulz '96". The Brown Daily Herald. Retrieved November 7, 2016.
- MacManus, Roxanne (June 23, 2010). "Kathryn Schulz: A former Portland journalist explains why sometimes it's right to be wrong". Willamette Week. Retrieved November 7, 2016.
- "The Wrong Stuff". slate.com. 2010. Retrieved 2010-08-03.
- "Why Should We Embrace Regret?". TED Radio Hour. NPR. May 2, 2012. Retrieved December 28, 2018.
- Dwight Garner, "To Err Is Human. And How! And Why", The New York Times, June 10, 2010.
- Daniel Gilbert, "The Errors of Our Ways", The New York Times, Sunday Book Review, July 23, 2010
External links
- Official Site
- The Wrong Stuff on Slate
- Kathryn Schultz speaks at TED 2011
- Biography
- Being Wrong, at HarperCollins
- Kathryn Schulz author page, HarperCollins
- Dwight Garner, "To Err Is Human. And How! And Why", The New York Times, June 10, 2010
- Daniel Gilbert, "The Errors of Our Ways", The New York Times, Sunday Book Review, July 23, 2010
- "Kathryn Schulz On Learning To Love 'Being Wrong'". NPR. June 7, 2010
- Stuart Jeffries, "Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error by Kathryn Schulz" (review). The Guardian, August 27, 2010
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