Sasha Abramsky

Sasha Abramsky
Born (1972-04-04) 4 April 1972
Nationality American, British
Occupation Journalist, author

Sasha Abramsky (born 4 April 1972)[1] is a British-born freelance journalist and author who now lives in the United States. His work has appeared in The Nation, The Atlantic Monthly, New York, The Village Voice, and Rolling Stone.[2] He is a senior fellow at the American liberal think tank Demos,[3] and a lecturer in the University of California, Davis's University Writing Program.[2]

Biography

Abramsky was born in England and raised in London, in what Debbie Arrington described as "an accomplished and bookish family".[4] He received a B.A. from Balliol College, Oxford in politics, philosophy and economics in 1993. He then traveled to the United States, where he earned a master's degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.[1][3] In 2000, he received a Crime and Communities Media Fellowship from the Open Society Foundations. As of 2015, he lives in Sacramento, California with his wife, daughter, and son.[5]

Publications

Books

  • Hard Time Blues: How Politics Built a Prison Nation. Thomas Dunne Books / St. Martins Press, January 2002 ISBN 0312268114
  • Conned: How Millions Went to Prison, Lost the Vote, And Helped Send George W. Bush to the White House. The New Press, April 2006 ISBN 978-1565849662
  • American Furies: Crime, Punishment, and Vengeance in the Age of Mass Imprisonment. Beacon Press (MA), May 2007 ISBN 978-0807042236
  • Ill-equipped: U.S. Prisons and Offenders with Mental Illness. Human Rights Watch, June 2007 ISBN 978-1564322906
  • Breadline USA: The Hidden Scandal of American Hunger and How to Fix It. Polipoint Press, June 2009 ISBN 978-0981709116
  • Inside Obama's Brain. Portfolio, December 2009 ISBN 978-1591843023
  • The American Way of Poverty: How the Other Half Still Lives. Nation Books, September 2013 ISBN 978-1568587264
  • The House of Twenty Thousand Books, a memoir of his grandfather, Chimen Abramsky. London : Halban, June 2014 ISBN 9781905559640
  • Jumping at Shadows: The Triumph of Fear and the End of the American Dream, a study of irrational fear in the United States. Nation Books, September 2017 ISBN 978-1568585192

Awards

In 2000, Abramsky received the James Aronson Award for his Atlantic Monthly article "When They Get Out".[6] In 2016, his memoir The House of Twenty Thousand Books, which describes the lives of his Jewish grandparents Chimen and Miriam Abramsky, received an honorable mention for that year's Sophie Brody Medal.[7][8]

References

  1. 1 2 "Abramsky, Sasha 1972-". Contemporary Authors. 2009. Retrieved 2017-10-27.
  2. 1 2 "Sasha Abramsky". University of California, Davis. Retrieved 2017-10-27.
  3. 1 2 "Sasha Abramsky". Demos. Retrieved 2017-10-27.
  4. ↑ Arrington, Debbie (2017-09-22). "In his new book 'Jumping at Shadows,' Sasha Abramsky explores fear in American life, politics". The Sacramento Bee. ISSN 0890-5738. Retrieved 2017-10-27.
  5. ↑ "Bio". Sasha Abramsky Website. Retrieved 2017-10-27.
  6. ↑ "77 North Washington Street". The Atlantic. 2000. Retrieved 2017-10-27.
  7. ↑ "Book on 8-year-old Warsaw Ghetto boy wins Jewish literature medal". Jewish Telegraphic Agency. 2016-01-11. Retrieved 2017-10-27.
  8. ↑ "'The House of Twenty Thousand Books' re-creates an intellectual milieu". Washington Post. 2015-10-07. Retrieved 2017-10-27.


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