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词条 Sasha Abramsky
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  1. Biography

  2. Publications

      Books  

  3. Awards

  4. References

  5. External links

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}}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".[3] 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][4] 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. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/abramsky-sasha-1972|title=Abramsky, Sasha 1972- |website=Contemporary Authors|year=2009|language=en|access-date=2017-10-27}}
2. ^{{Cite web|url=https://poverty.ucdavis.edu/profile/sasha-abramsky|title=Sasha Abramsky|website=University of California, Davis|access-date=2017-10-27}}
3. ^{{Cite news|url=http://www.sacbee.com/entertainment/books/article174664221.html|title=In his new book ‘Jumping at Shadows,’ Sasha Abramsky explores fear in American life, politics|last=Arrington|first=Debbie|date=2017-09-22|work=The Sacramento Bee|access-date=2017-10-27|language=en-US|issn=0890-5738}}
4. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.demos.org/sasha-abramsky|title=Sasha Abramsky|website=Demos|language=en|access-date=2017-10-27}}
5. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.sashaabramsky.com/index.php/bio/|title=Bio |website=Sasha Abramsky Website|access-date=2017-10-27}}
6. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2000/07/77-north-washington-street/378288/|year=2000|title=77 North Washington Street|work=The Atlantic|access-date=2017-10-27|language=en-US}}
7. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.jta.org/2016/01/11/arts-entertainment/book-on-8-year-old-warsaw-ghetto-boy-wins-jewish-literature-medal|title=Book on 8-year-old Warsaw Ghetto boy wins Jewish literature medal|work=Jewish Telegraphic Agency|date=2016-01-11|access-date=2017-10-27|language=en-us}}
8. ^{{Cite web|date=2015-10-07|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/the-house-of-twenty-thousand-books-recreates-an-intellectual-milieu/2015/10/07/24de4172-6c3c-11e5-b31c-d80d62b53e28_story.html|title=‘The House of Twenty Thousand Books’ re-creates an intellectual milieu|website=Washington Post|access-date=2017-10-27}}

External links

  • {{Official website|http://www.sashaabramsky.com/}}
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9 : 1972 births|Living people|Journalists from London|British Jewish writers|British emigrants to the United States|Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford|Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism alumni|Writers from London|University of California, Davis faculty

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