Jonathan Rosen is an American author and editor.

Education

Rosen graduated from

Yale Yale University is a private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701, Yale is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, and one of the nine colonial colleges ch ...

and began graduate studies working towards a PhD in English at the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California), is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Berkeley, California, United States. Founded in 1868 and named after t ...

. He dropped out of graduate school to become a writer.

Career

In 1990 Rosen was hired by

Seth Lipsky Seth Lipsky (born 1946) is the founder and editor of the ''New York Sun'', an independent conservative daily in New York City that ceased its print edition on September 30, 2008. Lipsky counts Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, Winston Churchill, ...

at ''

The Jewish Daily Forward ''The Forward'' (), formerly known as ''The Jewish Daily Forward'', is an American news media organization for a Jewish American audience. Founded in 1897 as a Yiddish-language daily socialist newspaper, ''The New York Times'' reported that Set ...

'' to create an arts section of the paper's then newly editorially independent English language edition. He held the job for 10 years and describes Lipsky as an important influence. As of 2007, he was editorial director of

Nextbook Nextbook is a nonprofit Jewish organization founded in 2003 by Elaine Bernstein's Keren Keshet Foundation to promote Jewish literacy and support Jewish literature, culture and ideas. The organization sponsors public lectures, commissions books o ...

. Rosen's novel ''Joy Comes in the Morning'' (2004) features a protagonist, Rabbi Deborah Green, who struggles with the perceptions of women rabbis. This work's inclusion of a woman rabbi is viewed as a significant development in American Jewish writings featuring women rabbis.Zierler, W. (2006). A dignitary in the land? Literary representations of the American rabbi. ''AJS Review'', 30(2), 255-275. In April 2023, Rosen published ''The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions'', a memoir about his friendship with Michael Laudor, a

Yale Law School Yale Law School (YLS) is the law school of Yale University, a Private university, private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. It was established in 1824. The 2020–21 acceptance rate was 4%, the lowest of any law school in the United ...

graduate with

schizophrenia Schizophrenia () is a mental disorder characterized variously by hallucinations (typically, Auditory hallucination#Schizophrenia, hearing voices), delusions, thought disorder, disorganized thinking and behavior, and Reduced affect display, f ...

who killed his fiancée in 1998 during a psychotic episode. The book was a finalist for a

Pulitzer Prize The Pulitzer Prizes () are 23 annual awards given by Columbia University in New York City for achievements in the United States in "journalism, arts and letters". They were established in 1917 by the will of Joseph Pulitzer, who had made his fo ...

and has received high critical acclaim. In August 2024, Rosen was hired as an editor with '' The Free Press''.

Media

A talk with Jonathan Rosen

Book Examines Connection Between Humans, Birds (National Public Radio)

Bibliography

* * ''The Life of the Skies: Birding at the End of Nature'' MacMillan, 2008. * ''The Talmud and the Internet : a journey between worlds,'' Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000. (0374272387) * ''Joy comes in the morning,'' Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004. (0374180261) * *

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Rosen, Jonathan 1963 births Living people American male writers The New Yorker people Yale University alumni Jewish American journalists Jewish American novelists American people of Austrian-Jewish descent