Joe Jackson (writer)

Jackson in Virginia Beach in 2021
Born	1955 (age 69–70)
Occupation	Author, professor, journalist
Alma mater	University of Arkansas (MFA) [1]
Website
joejacksonbooks.com

Joe Jackson (born 1955) is an American author of seven nonfiction books, including The Thief at the End of the World: Rubber, Power, and the Seeds of Empire, ^[2] (a Time magazine Top Ten Books of 2008 selection) ^[3] and Black Elk: The Life of an American Visionary , which was first published by Macmillan imprint Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2016 ^[4]

His book Black Elk received multiple awards and acclaimed reviews, ^{[4] [5]} including the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography ^[6] and won the Society of American Historians' Francis Parkman Prize. ^{[7] [8]}

In 2016, Jackson was named the Mina Hohenberg Darden Professor of Creative Writing at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. He was preceded by Philip Roth author Blake Bailey. ^[9]

Awards and honors

• Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Fact Crime nomination for Leavenworth Train, 2002 ^[10]
• National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography nomination for Black Elk, 2016
• Francis Parkman Prize for Black Elk, 2017
• PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography for Black Elk, 2017

Bibliography

Non-fiction books

• Dead Run: The Shocking Story of Dennis Stockton and Life on Death Row in America with William Burke Jr. (Canongate, 1999, ISBN   9780862419325; reprint: Times/Henry Holt, 1999, ISBN   0-8129-3206-4) ^[11]
• Leavenworth Train: A Fugitive's Search for Justice in the Vanishing West (Basic Books, 2001, ISBN   9780786708970) ^[12]
• A Furnace Afloat: The Wreck of the Hornet and the Harrowing 4,300-mile of its Survivors (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2003, ISBN   9780297846185; also Free Press, 2003, ISBN   0-7432-3037-X) ^[13]
• A World on Fire: A Heretic, an Aristocrat, and the Race to Discover Oxygen (Viking, 2005, ISBN   0-670-03434-7) ^[14]
• The Thief at the End of the World: Rubber, Power, and the Seeds of Empire (Viking, 2008, ISBN   9780670018536, ISBN   9781101202692 (e-book)) ^{[15] [16]}
• Atlantic Fever: Lindbergh, His Competitors, and the Race to Cross the Atlantic (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012, ISBN   978-0-374-10675-1) ^[17]
• Black Elk: The Life of an American Visionary (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016, ISBN   9780374253301) ^[4]
• Splendid Liberators: Heroism, Betrayal, Resistance, and the Birth of American Empire (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2025, ISBN   978-0374191900) ^[18]

Novels

• How I Left the Great State of Tennessee and Went on to Better Things (Carroll and Graf, 2004, ISBN   978-0-7867-1284-7 ^[19]

References

1. "Joe Jackson - Biography, or "What Little is Known"". Joe Jackson official website. Retrieved January 26, 2023.
2. McDonald, Alyssa (October 24, 2009). "The Thief at the End of the World by Joe Jackson | Book Review". The Guardian . Retrieved January 25, 2023.
3. Grossman, Lev (November 3, 2008). "The Top 10 Everything of 2008". Time . ISSN   0040-781X . Retrieved January 25, 2023.
4. "Black Elk". Kirkus Reviews (published September 1, 2016). August 21, 2016. Retrieved January 26, 2023.
5. Reviews and press for Black Elk:
   • "Black Elk: The Life of an American Visionary by Joe Jackson". Publishers Weekly (published November 2016). September 26, 2016. Retrieved January 26, 2023.
   • Panel Discussion on History. Los Angeles Times Festival of Books . April 22, 2017. Retrieved January 25, 2023– via C-SPAN. Joe Jackson, author of Black Elk: The Life of an American Visionary; Adam Hochschild, author of Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939; and Michael Hiltzik, author of Big Science: Ernest Lawrence and the Invention that Launched the Military-Industrial Complex, talked about writing history. They spoke at the 22nd annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books
   • Hertzel, Laurie (November 18, 2016). "Review: 'Black Elk: The Life of an American Visionary,' by Joe Jackson". Star Tribune . Retrieved January 25, 2023.
   • Guinn, Jeff (November 24, 2016). "A new biography goes far beyond 'Black Elk Speaks'". Dallas Morning News . Retrieved January 25, 2023.
   • Treuer, David (November 4, 2016). "The illuminating life of a native-American spiritual leader". Washington Post . ISSN   0190-8286 . Retrieved January 25, 2023.
   • Tuttle, Kate (November 23, 2016). "Fresh looks at Black Elk, JFK, and table manners". The Boston Globe . Retrieved January 26, 2023.
6. Maher, John (February 22, 2017). "PEN America Announces 2017 Literary Award Winners". Publishers Weekly .
7. "Cronon, Wilner, Jackson Win Society of American Historians Prizes". Publishers Weekly . May 25, 2017.
8. "Black Elk Biography Continues to Rack up National Accolades". Old Dominion University . June 21, 2017. Retrieved January 25, 2023.
9. Old Dominion University articles:
   • Robinson, Tom (March 9, 2016). "Local Author Joe Jackson Named Mina Hohenberg Darden Chair in Creative Writing". Old Dominion University (Press release). Retrieved January 25, 2023.
   • "Author Blake Bailey to Depart Hohenberg Darden Chair in Creative Writing". Old Dominion University (Press release). March 17, 2016.
10. "Category List – Best Fact Crime". Edgar Awards . Select: Award Year, 2002. Retrieved January 26, 2023.
11. "Dead Run". Kirkus Reviews (published October 1, 2000). May 20, 2010. Retrieved January 26, 2023.
12. "Leavenworth Train". Kirkus Reviews (published July 15, 2001). May 20, 2010. Retrieved January 26, 2023.
13. "A Furnace Afloat". Kirkus Reviews (published July 15, 2003). May 20, 2010. Retrieved January 26, 2023.
14. "A World on Fire". Kirkus Reviews (published August 15, 2005). May 20, 2010. Retrieved January 26, 2023.
15. "Review: The Thief at the End of the World by Joe Jackson" . The Telegraph . September 27, 2008.
16. Pain, Stephanie (April 2, 2008). "Review: The Thief at the End of the World by Joe Jackson" . New Scientist .
17. "Atlantic Fever". Kirkus Reviews (published March 15, 2012). March 5, 2012. Retrieved January 26, 2023.
18. "Splendid Liberators". Kirkus Reviews (published July 15, 2025). June 13, 2025. Retrieved October 19, 2025.
19. "How I Left the Great State of Tennessee and Went on to Better Things". Publishers Weekly . March 2004. Retrieved January 26, 2023.

External links

• Official website