请输入您要查询的百科知识:

 

词条 Jason Roberts (author)
释义

  1. References

  2. External links

{{Infobox writer
|image =
|imagesize =
| name = Jason Roberts
| caption =
| pseudonym =
| birth_name =
| birth_date =
| birth_place = California
| death_date =
| death_place =
| occupation = Writer
| nationality = United States
| period = 1997 - present
| genre = nonfiction, fiction
| subject =
| movement =
| notableworks = A Sense of the World
| spouse =
| partner =
| children =
| relatives = Anthony K. Roberts (father), Gloria Neil (mother)
| influences =
| influenced =
| awards = Van Zorn Prize, National Book Critics Circle (finalist), Guardian First Book Award (nominee)
| signature =
| website = jasonroberts.net
}}{{Use mdy dates|date=November 2015}}

Jason Roberts is an American author. A former journalist and technologist, he has garnered acclaim for his work in both fiction and narrative nonfiction.

The son of Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Anthony Kalani Roberts and the actress Gloria Neil, Roberts grew up in Southern California and Hawaii. Drawn to nearby Silicon Valley while matriculating at the University of California at Santa Cruz, he worked as a software engineer at Apple Computer before leaving to write a series of books on both hardware and software topics, then to serve as a technology reporter for the Village Voice. An early proponent of the Internet, in 1996 Roberts launched the Learn2 Corporation, one of the first sources for non-academic instruction on the Internet. In 1999, the company began publicly trading on the NASDAQ exchange; it has since been acquired by Oracle Corporation. In 2000, shortly after Yahoo! ranked Learn2 as “One of the Ten Most Important Websites of the 20th Century”,[1] Roberts retired from management and returned to writing.

In 2004, Roberts was the inaugural winner of the Van Zorn Prize, awarded by Michael Chabon for the best short fiction exemplifying the tradition of Edgar Allan Poe. In 2006 Roberts’ A Sense of the World, the first biography of the blind traveller James Holman (1786-1857), was a national bestseller, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award. The book was also named a "Best Book of the Year" by the Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Kirkus Reviews, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and the Rocky Mountain News. In 2018, Roberts announced his next book, Every Living Thing, had been acquired by Random House, for publication in 2020.

Roberts is the editor of The Learn2 Guide, as well as four titles in the bestselling 642 Books series, each collections of creative materials for writers.

Roberts lives in Sausalito, California. He is a board member of the Community of Writers at Squaw Valley and a member of The Grotto, a San Francisco workspace and literary community whose members past and present include Po Bronson, Mary Roach, Noah Hawley, Ethan Canin, Caroline Paul, and T.J. Stiles.[2]

References

1. ^Publisher bio
2. ^"Inhabitants" {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030715232027/http://sfgrotto.org/inhabitants.html |date=July 15, 2003 }}, San Francisco Writers' Grotto website

External links

  • Roberts's home page
  • Bio from US publisher HarperCollins
  • An updated bibliography of works by Roberts
  • "The Latest in Innuendo Bumper Stickers" by Jason Roberts at McSweeney's Internet Tendency
{{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Roberts, Jason}}

13 : Living people|21st-century American novelists|American male novelists|Place of birth missing (living people)|Year of birth missing (living people)|Writers from San Francisco|University of California, Santa Cruz alumni|American male journalists|Journalists from California|American male short story writers|21st-century American biographers|21st-century American short story writers|21st-century American male writers

随便看

 

开放百科全书收录14589846条英语、德语、日语等多语种百科知识,基本涵盖了大多数领域的百科知识,是一部内容自由、开放的电子版国际百科全书。

 

Copyright © 2023 OENC.NET All Rights Reserved
京ICP备2021023879号 更新时间:2024/9/23 4:20:23