Jane Kramer

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Jane Kramer (born August 7, 1938 in Providence , Rhode Island ) is an American journalist and writer .

Life

After completing a degree in English at Vassar College in 1959 and at Columbia University , she gained her first journalistic experience with The Morningsider and The Village Voice . She became aware of William Shawn in 1964 and hired her for The New Yorker magazine .

In the 1970s she commuted between the USA and Europe. In 1981 she established herself as a permanent Europe correspondent and columnist ("Letter from Europe") for the New Yorker. In addition to reporting on European leaders and business people and major events, she developed a special interest in outsiders who found it difficult to fit into the "New Europe".

After the bomb attack in Oklahoma City in 1995 , she turned to the subject of the far-right militia and in 2003 published the book The Lonely Patriot .

Kramer has won numerous awards and prizes, including the Emmy Award . She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters (since 2016), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (since 1996), the Council on Foreign Relations, and a founding member and board member of the Committee to Protect Journalists . She has taught at the Princeton University , at Sarah Lawrence College and a Regents Professor at the UC Berkeley taught in the fall of 1999, she was Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence at the Baruch College of the City University of New York .

In 2006 she was accepted as a knight in the Legion of Honor . She lives in Paris and New York with her husband Vincent Crapanzano .

Works (selection)

  • The last cowboy . Penguin Books, New York, NY [et al.], 1990.
  • Strange Europeans: Faces and Stories . Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 1994, The Other Library series .
  • Among Germans. Letters from a small country in Europe . Edition Tiamat, Berlin 1996. ISBN 3-923118-94-5
  • The lonely patriot: the short career of an American militiaman . Edition Tiamat, Berlin 2003.

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personal data
SURNAME Kramer, Jane
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 7, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Providence , Rhode Island