Jim Holt
Jim Holt (born October 30, 1954 ) is an American journalist and non-fiction author of popular science essays and books.
Life
Jim Holt came to New York City as a high school graduate to study math and philosophy. Instead, he became a club goer, freelance journalist, and essayist. His essays on philosophy, math, and science have been printed in The New York Times , The New York Review of Books , The New Yorker, and The American Scholar . For the online magazine Slate he has a. a. John Updike , Richard Dawkins and Bill McKibben interviewed. He made Living in America, with Jim Holt, for BBC Wales for ten years .
His book Why Does the World Exist ?: An Existential Detective Story was a bestseller in the US in 2012 and was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award for non-fiction. In the German first edition, When Einstein Walked with Gödel: Excursions to the Edge of Thought appeared in 2020 . In this work he devotes himself to various mathematical and physical problems and portrays various well-known personalities, including Albert Einstein , Benoit Mandelbrot , Alan Turing and many others.
Fonts
- Worlds within worlds . London: Fourth Estate, 2003
- Stop Me If You've Heard This: A History and Philosophy of Jokes . New Yor WW Norton, 2008
- Why Does the World Exist? An Existential Detective Story . New York: Liveright Pub. Corp., 2012 ISBN 978-0-87140-409-1
- Is there all or nothing? A philosophical detective story . Translation by Hainer Kober . Reinbek: Rowohlt 2014 ISBN 978-3498028138
- When Einstein Walked With Gödel: Excursions to the Edge of Thought. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018 ISBN 978-0-37414-670-2
- When Einstein and Gödel went for a walk: excursions to the edge of thinking. Translation Monika Niehaus and Bernd Schuh. Rowohlt 2020 ISBN 978-3-49803-048-3
Web links
- Literature by and about Jim Holt in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Jim Holt in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Jim Holt: Who is Jim Holt? , own short bio at whoisjimholt.com (i.e. a mail from Holts to the organizer of the musical Who is Jim Holt ? , musical by Rhys Southan & J. Nathan Weisenthal, Houston , 2002)
- Jim Holt , at 5 × 15: 5 speakers 15 minutes each
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jim Holt , alias James C. Holt, date of birth at LCCN
- ↑ Hannes Stein : How is something like that? , Portrait, in: The literary world , July 12, 2014, p. 3 online
- ↑ Jim Holt , at Slate.com
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Holt, Jim |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American journalist and non-fiction author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 30, 1954 |