Susan Jacoby
Susan Jacoby (born June 4, 1945 in Okemos , Michigan ) is an American writer and journalist . She is considered a committed advocate of secularization and atheism .
Life
Jacoby was raised Catholic and only found out about her Jewish roots on her father's side in her late twenties. She later dealt with this fact in Half-Jew: A Daughter's Search for Her Family's Buried Past (2000). She graduated from Michigan State University in 1965 . Jacoby began her career at the Washington Post and later worked for many well-known US newspapers. Her work Wild Justice: The Evolution of Revenge (1984) was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize . In her work The Age of American Unreason (2008) she deals with anti-intellectualism in the United States. Jacoby lives in New York and is the program director for the Center for Inquiry's office there .
In February 2010 she was made an honorary member of the Freedom From Religion Foundation and, also in 2010, she received the Richard Dawkins Foundation Prize for Reason and Science through the Atheist Alliance International .
Trivia
The game expert and author Oswald Jacoby is her uncle.
Fonts (selection)
- Wild Justice: The Evolution of Revenge (1983), ISBN 978-0-060-15197-3
- Half-Jew: A Daughter's Search for Her Family's Buried Past (2000), ISBN 978-0-684-83250-0
- Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism (2004), ISBN 978-0-805-07776-6
- The Age of American Unreason (2008), ISBN 978-0-375-42374-1
- The Great Agnostic: Robert Ingersoll and American Freethought (2013), ISBN 978-0-300-13725-5
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Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jacoby, Susan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American writer and journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 4, 1945 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Okemos , Michigan , United States |