Jonathan Green (journalist)
Jonathan Green is an English author and investigative journalist specializing in narrative non-fiction. He is the author of two books Murder in the High Himalaya (2010) and Sex Money Murder (2018).[1]
Life and career
Green was born in Bury St Edmunds, in Suffolk, England. He attended St Joseph's College, Ipswich. He holds a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Nonfiction from Goucher College.
Green has written for the New York Times, Virginia Quarterly Review, Garden and Gun, Town and Country, the Sunday Times Magazine, Men's Journal, Fast Company, Esquire, GQ, The Financial Times, Men's Health, and The Mail on Sunday, among others.[2] He has reported in war-torn Sudan, Borneo, and the ice fields of Alaska.[2]
Green's first book, Murder in the High Himalaya: Loyalty, Tragedy, and Escape from Tibet (2010)[3] is about the Nangpa La shootings.[4] It is based on his article in Men's Journal called "Murder at 19,000 Feet". Murder in the High Himalaya won the Banff Mountain Book Competition in the Mountain and Wilderness Category (2011).[5] It also won the American Society of Journalists and Authors Outstanding Non Fiction Book of the Year (2011).[6] The book is endorsed by the Dalai Lama and actor Richard Gere.[7][8]
Green's second book, Sex Money Murder: A Story of Crack, Blood and Betrayal (2018) chronicles the story of the infamous Bronx gang Sex Money Murder through inside access to gangsters and the federal agents, police officers and prosecutors who took them down. It was a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers pick in Spring 2018 and bestselling author Jill Leovy wrote that the book was "exceptionally authentic" in the New York Times Book Review. [9]
Awards
- 2007 American Society of Journalists and Authors, Reporting on a Significant Topic, winner, "Gold’s Deadly Glister"
- 2007 Magazine Design and Journalism Awards, Feature Writer of the Year, winner
- 2008 North American Travel Journalists Association, Sports in Conjunction With Travel, winner, "The Three Peaks Challenge"
- 2008 One World Media Awards, Environment Awards, finalist, "The Biofuel Time Bomb"
- 2008 The Best American Crime Reporting, anthologized "Murder at 19000ft"
- 2008 Magazine Design and Journalism Awards, Exclusive of the Year, winner, "The Dirty Secret of Your NHS"
- 2008 The Foreign Press Association in London, Environment Story of the Year, "The Dirty Secret of Your NHS"
- 2008 Amnesty International Media Award, winner, "Selling Soccer Into Slavery"
- 2009 One World Media Awards, Press Journalist of the Year, finalist
- 2009 Amnesty International Media Award, finalist, "The Dirty Secret of Your NHS"
- 2011 One World Media Awards, finalist, "Is Britain In Too Deep?"
- 2011 American Society of Journalists and Authors, Outstanding Non-Fiction Book Award, Murder in the High Himalaya[6]
- 2011 Banff Mountain Book Competition, Mountain and Wilderness Literature category, Murder in the High Himalaya[5]
- 2015 Christine White Award in Literary Journalism Goucher College
Notes
- ↑ Christine White (September 11, 2010). "Author Jonathan Green talks about 'Murder in the High Himalaya'". MassLive.com. Retrieved December 6, 2012.
- 1 2 Author page Archived 2010-06-22 at the Wayback Machine. at PublicAffairs
- ↑ Jonathan Green. Murder in the High Himalaya, PublicAffairs, 2010. ISBN 978-1-58648-714-0
- ↑ Pete Redington (September 6, 2012). "Gunshots on the Roof of the World". Valley Advocate. Retrieved February 4, 2014.
- 1 2 "Banff Mountain Book Festival 2011". Banff Mountain Book Festival. November 2011. Archived from the original on 2011-11-04.
- 1 2 "2011 Annual Writing Awards". American Society of Journalists and Authors. 2011. Retrieved July 1, 2018.
- ↑ "Murder at 19,000 Feet" (PDF). Men's Journal. November 2007.
- ↑ Steven Russell (July 21, 2011). "Murder in the Himalayas: The ex-Suffolk schoolboy living dangerously". EADT. Retrieved February 4, 2014.
- ↑ Jill Leovy (June 1, 2018). "The Killers of the 'Sex Money Murder' Gang and the Cops Who Went After Them". New York Times Book Review. Retrieved July 1, 2018.