Luke Mogelson

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Luke Mogelson
OccupationJournalist
NationalityAmerican
Alma mater Bennington College
Genre War reporting
Notable awards George Polk Award
National Magazine Award
Livingston Award

Luke Mogelson is an American journalist. He has contributed to The New Yorker and New York Times Magazine, covering the wars in Ukraine, Afghanistan, Syria, and Iraq, as well as Minneapolis after the murder of George Floyd and the January 6th attack on the Capitol.

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Biography

Mogelson was born in St. Louis. He graduated from Bennington College in 2005. [1] He was a contributing writer for the New York Times magazine , reporting from Kabul, Afghanistan, [2] from 2011 to 2014. He then moved to The New Yorker in 2013, where he has reported from Ukraine [3] and Syria, [4] and on domestic affairs in the United States. [5]

Achievements and honors

Mogelson won a Livingston Award in 2013, a National Magazine Award in 2014, and his work has been supported by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. [6] In 2021, he received a George Polk Award for his coverage of protests and racial politics in the United States. [7]

Works

Mogelson is the author of The Storm is Here: An American Crucible [8] and These Heroic, Happy Dead, a book of short stories. [9] [10]

The Storm is Here

Mogelson's first book, The Storm is Here: An American Crucible, was published September 13, 2022, by Penguin Random House. The book describes the social discord in the United States through a series of eye-witness accounts following the distress created by COVID-19, economic uncertainty, and the clash of political and race relations within the US post-2016. [10] [8] [11]

Bibliography

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Notes
  1. Online version is titled "Among the insurrectionists".

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References

  1. "Luke Mogelson | Bennington College". www.bennington.edu. Retrieved July 31, 2022.
  2. "Luke Mogelson". The New Yorker. Retrieved February 21, 2023.
  3. Mogelson, Luke (May 22, 2023). "Two Weeks at the Front in Ukraine". The New Yorker. Retrieved May 24, 2023.
  4. Mogelson, Luke (April 22, 2020). "America's Abandonment of Syria". The New Yorker. Retrieved May 24, 2023.
  5. Mogelson, Luke. "Contributor Page". The New Yorker. Retrieved August 17, 2021.
  6. "Luke Mogelson '05". Bennington.edu. Bennington College. Retrieved August 17, 2021.
  7. "Polk Award Winners". Polk Awards. Long Island University. Retrieved August 17, 2021.
  8. 1 2 Borger, Julian (September 7, 2022). "The Storm Is Here by Luke Mogelson review – America on the brink". The Guardian. ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved March 1, 2023.
  9. "These Heroic, Happy Dead". MacMillan. MacMillan. Retrieved August 17, 2021.
  10. 1 2 Hochschild, Arlie Russell (September 13, 2022). "A New Book Tracks the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism in the U.S." The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved January 14, 2023.
  11. "Luke Mogelson's "The Storm Is Here" Explores the Components That Led to January 6's Capitol Attack". Oprah Daily. September 7, 2022. Retrieved March 1, 2023.