John Jeremiah Sullivan

Sullivan at home in North Carolina. Photo courtesy of Harry Taylor.

John Jeremiah Sullivan (born 1974) is an American writer, musician, teacher, and editor. He is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine, a contributing editor of Harper's Magazine, and the southern editor of The Paris Review. In 2014, he edited The Best American Essays, a collection in which his work has been featured in previous years. He has also served on the faculty of Columbia University, Sewanee: The University of the South, and other institutions.

Biography

Sullivan was born in Louisville, Kentucky to Mike Sullivan, a sportswriter. His mother is an English professor. He earned his degree in 1997 from The University of the South, in Sewanee, Tennessee.

His first book, Blood Horses: Notes of a Sportswriter's Son, was published in 2004. It is part personal reminiscence, part elegy for his father, and part investigation into the history and culture of the thoroughbred racehorse.

His second book, Pulphead: Essays (2011),[1] is an anthology of fourteen previously published magazine articles, with most of them "in substantially different form"[2] for the book.

Sullivan's essay "Mister Lytle: An Essay", originally published in The Paris Review, won a number of awards and was anthologized in Pulphead. Sullivan recounts how he lived with Andrew Nelson Lytle, when Lytle was in his 90s, helping him with house chores and learning some wisdom about writing and life.

His original music appears on the self-titled album Life of Saturdays.

In 2017, he helped lead a small group of 8th-grade students on a scavenger hunt to resurrect lost copies of The Daily Record, the African–American newspaper at the center of a white supremacist coup d'état and massacre that occurred in his adopted home town of Wilmington, NC, in 1898.[3] He and his team located seven total copies, all of which are now digitized and available for view via the N.C. Digital Heritage Project.

Sullivan is married to Dr. Mariana Johnson, a film scholar and professor. They have two daughters.

Awards

Bibliography

Books

Select articles

GQ
The New Yorker
Harper's Magazine
New York Magazine
The New York Times Magazine
The Paris Review

The Oxford American

References

  1. ↑ "Pulp Fever", Daniel Riley, GQ, November 3, 2011.
  2. ↑ Pulphead, Copyright page, front matter.
  3. ↑ "Middle Schoolers Help Transcribe, Digitize Rare Historical Newspapers". lj.libraryjournal.com. Retrieved 2018-01-29.
  4. ↑ "Prize Citation for John Jeremiah Sullivan". Windham–Campbell Literature Prize. February 24, 2015. Retrieved February 25, 2015.
  5. ↑ "2016 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grantee: John Jeremiah Sullivan". Whiting.org. Retrieved 24 January 2018.
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