Jeremy Blachman

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Jeremy Blachman (born 1979) is an American journalist and the author of Anonymous Lawyer: A Novel.

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Biography

Blachman graduated from Hunter College High School in 1996. He received his undergraduate degree from Princeton University, is a 2005 graduate of Harvard Law School, and currently lives in New York.

Anonymous Lawyer

Blachman started the Anonymous Lawyer blog in his second year at Harvard Law School [1] taking on the satirical persona of a law firm hiring partner". [2] After revealing his identity to the New York Times [1] he earned a book deal with Henry Holt to turn the blog into a novel. [3] Anonymous Lawyer: A Novel was published in hardcover in 2006, and then in paperback by Picador (imprint) in 2007. [4]

The book was in development for a sitcom adaptation at NBC. [5]

Anonymous Lawyer has been translated into Korean, Italian, Polish, Thai, Hebrew and Russian. [6]

Journalism

Blachman's journalism and writing has appeared in McSweeney's, [7] FanGraphs, [8] the Wall Street Journal, [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] The New York Times, [16] The New Republic, [17] [18] Moment, [19] [20] Lusso, [21] Kveller, [22] The Bygone Bureau, [23] [24] Splitsider, [25] Grin & Tonic, [26] Thought Catalog, [27] The Millions, [28] The Nervous Breakdown, [29] SparkLife [30] and LA Weekly. [31]

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