Jonathan Waldman

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Jonathan Waldman
Occupation
  • Journalist
  • writer
NationalityAmerican
Alma materDartmouth College, Boston University
Genrenon-fiction

Jonathan Waldman is an American journalist, and non-fiction writer.

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Life

He grew up in Washington, D.C., and graduated from Dartmouth College, and Boston University. He was Scripps Fellow in environmental journalism at the University of Colorado, and his 2015 book Rust: The Longest War was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, [1] and won the 2016 Colorado Book Award in the "general non-fiction" category. [2]

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  2. Colorado Book Awards Retrieved 2021-01-08.
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