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 Hoffman, 2014 | |
| Born | May 4, 1960 Washington, D.C., United States |
| Occupation | Journalist, author |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Bachelor of Arts |
| Alma mater | University of Massachusetts Amherst (B.A., 1983) |
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Carl Hoffman (born 1960) is an American journalist and the author of five books of narrative non-fiction.
Carl Hoffman is a second generation native of Washington, D.C., a graduate of the District of Columbia public schools.
Hoffman is the author of a five narrative non-fiction books about his own journeys and those of other contemporary travelers and explorers. Hoffman is a former contributing editor at Wired magazine, National Geographic Traveler , and Popular Mechanics, and has published articles in Outside, Smithsonian, Men’s Journal, National Geographic Adventure, The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, Popular Mechanics and many others. Hoffman has traveled to Afghanistan, Sudan, Congo, New Guinea, Greenland, Mongolia, Russia, China, Indonesia and more than 80 other countries on assignment
Liar's Circus: A Strange and Terrifying Journey Into the Upside-Down World Of Trump's MAGA Rallies (2020) journeys deep inside Donald Trump’s rallies, seeking to understand the strange and powerful tribe that forms the president’s base.
The Last Wild Men of Borneo: A True Story of Death and Treasure (2018) is a dual biography of Swiss rain forest activist Bruno Manser and American hippie Michael Palmieri, who traveled throughout Borneo collecting its tribal art. It explores the theme of Western fascination with indigenous cultures and the interplay between them. [1] [2]
In Savage Harvest: A Tale of Cannibals, Colonialism, And Michael Rockefeller's Tragic Quest, [3] [4] (2014) Hoffman set out to untangle what happened to Michael Clark Rockefeller, the son of New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller, who vanished in 1961. Hoffman learned to speak Bahasa Indonesia and lived in a remote village amid 10,000 square miles of road-less swamp with the Asmat, a tribe of former headhunters and cannibals on the southwest coast of New Guinea.
In The Lunatic Express: Discovering the World Via It's Most Dangerous Buses, Boats, Trains, and Planes (2010), he traveled 50,000 miles around the world on its most dangerous conveyances, including by bus across Afghanistan and through the Gobi desert on a 20-ton propane truck.
Hunting Warbirds: The Obsessive Quest for the Lost Airplanes of World War II (2001), recounts the three-year effort to recover the World War II era B-29 bomber, Kee Bird, from northern Greenland.
Hoffman has won seven Lowell Thomas Awards from the Society of American Travel Writers Foundation[ citation needed ] and three North American Travel Journalism Awards[ citation needed ].
Liar's Circus was one of KirkusReviews 100 best books of 2020 and won a silver medal from the Society of American Travel Writers for Best Travel Book of 2020.
The Last Wild Men of Borneo was shortlisted in 2019 for an Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime Fiction and was a Banff Mountain Book Award finalist.
Savage Harvest was a New York Times Editors' Choice, a New York Times bestseller, was included in Amazon Editors' Picks for the 100 Best Books of 2014, [5] The Washington Post as one of its 50 notable non-fiction books of the year, [6] it was among the Kirkus Reviews "Best Books" of 2014 [7] and it was shortlisted for the 2015 Edgar Award in the "Best Fact Crime" category. [8] It has been translated into eight languages.
The Lunatic Express was named one of the ten best books of 2010 by The Wall Street Journal. [9]
Edgar Rice Burroughs was an American author, best known for his prolific output in the adventure, science fiction, and fantasy genres. Best-known for creating the characters Tarzan and John Carter, he also wrote the Pellucidar series, the Amtor series, and the Caspak trilogy.
Harold Schechter is an American true crime writer who specializes in serial killers. He is a Professor Emeritus at Queens College, City University of New York where he taught classes in American literature and myth criticism for forty-two years. Schechter's essays have appeared in numerous publications including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, and the International Herald Tribune. He is the editor of the Library of America volume, True Crime: An American Anthology. His newest book, published in March 2021, is Maniac: The Bath School Disaster and the Birth of the Modern Mass Killer.
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