Jessica Bruder

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Jessica Burder
OccupationJournalist
NationalityAmerican
Alma mater Amherst College
Columbia University
Website
www.jessicabruder.com

Jessica Bruder is an American journalist who writes about subcultures and teaches narrative writing at Columbia Journalism School. [1]

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Early life

Bruder grew up in Montclair, New Jersey. She graduated from Amherst College in 2000 and received a master's in journalism from Columbia University in 2005. [2]

Work

Writing

Bruder has written for The New York Times since 2003. [3] She worked in The Oregonian's now-closed Clackamas County bureau for nearly two years between 2006 and 2008, primarily covering breaking news, crime and the courts. [4] She also writes for WIRED, [5] New York [6] and Harper's Magazine. [7] Her first book was Burning Book: A Visual History of Burning Man. She also produced the film CamperForce, [8] directed by Brett Story.

For her book Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century (2017), [9] she spent months living in a camper van named Van Halen, documenting itinerant Americans who gave up traditional housing to hit the road full-time. [10] The project spanned three years and more than 15,000 miles of driving, from coast to coast and from Mexico to the Canadian border. [11] Named a New York Times 2017 Notable Book, [12] Nomadland won the 2017 Barnes & Noble Discover Award, [13] and was a finalist for the J. Anthony Lukas Prize [14] and the Helen Bernstein Book Award. [15]

Film

In February 2019, Fox Searchlight Pictures announced that they would distribute the film adaptation of Nomadland, also titled Nomadland , which had been optioned by Frances McDormand and Peter Spears. David Strathairn, Linda May and Charlene Swankie joined McDormand in the cast of the film, and Chloé Zhao directed from a screenplay she wrote based on the book. McDormand, Spears, Mollye Asher, Dan Janvey and Zhao produced the Searchlight film. The film was a critical success and wound up winning numerous accolades, including the Academy Award for Best Picture. [16]

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References

  1. ↑ "Jessica Bruder | School of Journalism". journalism.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2019-02-19.
  2. ↑ (June 2018). About the Author (Jessica Burder '00), amherst.edu, Retrieved 5 March 2019
  3. ↑ "The New York Times – Search". www.nytimes.com. Retrieved 2019-02-19.
  4. ↑ Oregonian/OregonLive, Amy Wang | The (2021-04-26). "Oscar winner 'Nomadland' based on book by former Oregon journalist". oregonlive. Retrieved 2022-12-20.
  5. ↑ "Jessica Bruder | WIRED". www.wired.com. Retrieved 2019-02-19.
  6. ↑ "NYC Guide to Restaurants, Fashion, Nightlife, Shopping, Politics, Movies". New York. Archived from the original on 2021-04-27. Retrieved 2019-02-19.
  7. ↑ "Jessica Bruder | Harper's Magazine" . Retrieved 2019-02-19.
  8. ↑ CamperForce (2017) , retrieved 2019-02-19
  9. ↑ "Nomadland | W. W. Norton & Company". books.wwnorton.com. Retrieved 2019-02-15.
  10. ↑ Hochschild, Arlie Russell (2017-11-17). "In 'Nomadland,' the Golden Years Are the Wander Years". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2019-02-19.
  11. ↑ "Jessica Bruder | Nantucket Book Festival". Jessica Bruder | Nantucket Book Festival. Retrieved 2019-02-19.
  12. ↑ "100 Notable Books of 2017". The New York Times. 2017-11-22. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2019-02-19.
  13. ↑ "Barnes & Noble Announces the Winners of the 27th Annual Discover Awards". Barnes & Noble Inc. 2018-03-07. Retrieved 2019-02-19.
  14. ↑ "Announcing the 2018 J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards Winners and Finalists | School of Journalism". journalism.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2019-02-19.
  15. ↑ "The Bernstein Awards 2018: Meet the Finalists". New York Public Library. Retrieved 2019-02-19.
  16. ↑ N'Duka, Amanda (2019-02-12). "Chloé Zhao's 'Nomadland' Starring Frances McDormand Lands at Fox Searchlight". Deadline. Retrieved 2019-02-19.


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