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| Occupation | Journalist |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Amherst College Columbia University |
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Jessica L. Bruder is an American journalist who writes about subcultures and teaches narrative writing at Columbia Journalism School. [1]
Bruder grew up in Montclair, New Jersey, after moving with her family from Clifton, New Jersey. [2] She attended Montclair Kimberley Academy. [3] She graduated from Amherst College in 2000 and received a master's in journalism from Columbia University in 2005. [4]
Bruder has written for The New York Times since 2003. [5] 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. [6] She has also written for Wired , [7] New York [8] and Harper's Magazine . [9] Her first book was Burning Book: A Visual History of Burning Man. She also produced the film CamperForce, [10] directed by Brett Story.
For her book Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century (2017), [11] 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. [12] The project spanned three years and more than 15,000 miles of driving, from coast to coast and from Mexico to the Canadian border. [13] Named a New York Times 2017 Notable Book, [14] Nomadland won the 2017 Barnes & Noble Discover Award, [15] and was a finalist for the J. Anthony Lukas Prize [16] and the Helen Bernstein Book Award. [17]
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. [18]
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