Amanda Ripley

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Amanda Ripley
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Born Arizona
OccupationJournalist
NationalityAmerican
Education Cornell University (BA)
Genrenon-fiction

Amanda Ripley is an American journalist and author. She has written features for Time magazine, and contributes to The Atlantic. Her book The Smartest Kids in the World was a New York Times bestseller.

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Biography

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Amanda Ripley and poet Pádraig Ó Tuama at the United States Institute for Peace in 2023

Amanda Ripley was born in Arizona and grew up in New Jersey. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Cornell University in 1996 with a B.A. in government.[ citation needed ]

After covering Capitol Hill for Congressional Quarterly , she worked on long-form feature stories for the Washington City Paper under editor David Carr. She then spent a decade working for Time magazine from New York, Washington and Paris. [1] She covered the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the 2001 anthrax investigation, and Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, helping[ clarification needed ]Time win two National Magazine Awards. [2]

Ripley has written three nonfiction books about human behavior, including The Smartest Kids in the World, a New York Times bestseller. In 2018, she became certified in conflict mediation and began training journalists to cover polarizing conflicts, [3] in partnership with the Solutions Journalism Network. Ripley writes op-eds for The Washington Post , [4] and feature articles for Politico [5] and The Atlantic , where she is a contributing writer. [6] She also hosts the "How To!" show for Slate magazine. [7]

She lives in Washington, D.C., with her husband. Her brother is the screenwriter Ben Ripley.

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Books

Selected articles

References

  1. Ripley, Amanda. "Teacher, Leave Those Kids Alone". Time . Archived from the original on September 24, 2011.
  2. "National Magazine Awards". www.asme.media. Retrieved January 5, 2021.
  3. "Complicating the Narratives". thewholestory.solutionsjournalism.org. Retrieved January 5, 2021.
  4. Ripley, Amanda. "Americans Are at Each Other's Throats. Here's One Way Out". The Washington Post . Retrieved January 5, 2021.
  5. Ripley, Amanda (14 November 2017). "Federal Law Enforcement Has a Woman Problem". Politico. Retrieved January 5, 2021.
  6. "Amanda Ripley Author Page" The Atlantic
  7. "How To! Show". Slate. 29 July 2019. Retrieved September 13, 2021.
  8. "Hardcover Nonfiction Books, Bestsellers". The New York Times. Retrieved January 4, 2021.
  9. Ripley, Amanda. High Conflict. Simon & Schuster. ISBN   978-1-7971-2376-9 . Retrieved 3 January 2021.
  10. Ripley, Amanda. "Latest Articles". Official Website. Retrieved January 5, 2021.