Joshua Hammer
Author of The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu
About the Author
Joshua Hammer is the New York Times bestselling author of The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu. He has written for the New York Times Magazine, GQ, Smithsonian, the Atlantic, the New Yorker, National Geographic, and Outside. He lives in Berlin.
Image credit: Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden moderates the "Essential Libraries" panel with Joshua Hammer and Alberto Manguel at the National Book Festival, August 31, 2019. Photo by Shawn Miller/Library of Congress. By Library of Congress Life - 20190831SM1159.jpg, CC0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=82899309
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- Birthdate
- 1957-06-12
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Country (for map)
- USA
- Birthplace
- New York, USA
- Places of residence
- New York, USA
Berlin, Germany
Nairobi, Kenya
Los Angeles, California, USA
Jerusalem, Israel - Education
- Horace Mann School, New York, New York, USA
Princeton University (English literature) - Occupations
- journalist
- Organizations
- Newsweek
- Agent
- Flip Brophy
- Short biography
- Joshua Hammer was born in New York and graduated from Princeton University with a cum laude degree in English literature. He joined the staff of Newsweek as a business and media writer in 1988, and between 1993 and 2006 served as a bureau chief and correspondent-at-large on five continents. Hammer is now a contributing editor to Smithsonian and Outside, and a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books< and has written for publications including The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, Condé Nast Traveler, The Atlantic, and The Atavist Magazine. He has won numerous journalism awards. Since 2007 he has been based in Berlin, Germany, and continues to travel widely around the world. [adapted from The Bad Ass Librarians of Timbuktu (2016)]
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- Works
- 12
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- Members
- 1,923
- Popularity
- #13,389
- Rating
- 3.6
- Reviews
- 82
- ISBNs
- 32
- Languages
- 3