Jonathan Schell

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Schell in Tompkins Square Park in New York, February 2012

Jonathan Schell (born August 21, 1943 in New York City , † March 25, 2014 there ) was an American peace activist , author and journalist .

Career

Schell was a columnist for The New Yorker from 1967 to 1987 . He became known in 1982 through his book "The Fate of the Earth" (Alfred Knopf Verlag), which first appeared as an article in the New Yorker and deals with the catastrophic consequences of a possible war with nuclear weapons, which he brought to public awareness in the USA brought. It became a bestseller that was also nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award , and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize . From 1990 to 1996 he was a columnist for Newsday and New York Newsday. He also wrote for other magazines such as Harpers and Foreign Affairs .

He has taught at Emory University , Princeton University , New York University and Wesleyan University , among others . In 1987 (Institute of Politics) and 2002 (at the Shorenstein Center) he was a fellow at Harvard University . In 2003 he taught at Yale Law School and was a fellow at the Center for the Study of Globalization at Yale University . Since 1998 he has been a Harold Willens Peace Fellow at the Nation Institute and a correspondent for their The Nation Magazine . He has appeared frequently on US television, primarily on nuclear disarmament issues. He also criticized the invasion of US troops in Iraq in 2002/03 .

In 2000 he received the Lannan Award for non-fiction books.

Books

  • The Village of Ben Suc , 1967
  • The Military Half , 1968
  • The Time of Illusion, 1976
  • The Fate of the Earth , 1982.
  • The Abolition , 1984
  • History in Sherman Park , 1987
  • The Real War, 1988
  • Observing the Nixon Years, 1989
  • The Gift of Time , 1998
  • The Unfinished Twentieth Century , 2001
  • The Unconquerable World. Power, Nonviolence, and the Will of the People , 2003
    • The politics of peace. Power, non-violence and the interests of the peoples. Hanser 2004.
  • A Hole in the World: A Story of War, Protest and the New American Order, 2004
  • The Seventh Decade: The New Shape of Nuclear Danger , 2007

Web links

Commons : Jonathan Schell  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Margalit Fox: Jonathan Schell, Author Who Explored War, Dies at 70. New York Times , March 26, 2014, accessed March 27, 2014 .
  2. ^ Spiegel, Interview with Schell, March 28, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Schell, Jonathan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American journalist and author
DATE OF BIRTH August 21, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH March 25, 2014
Place of death New York City