Kurlansky biography

American journalist and writer (born 1948)

Mark Kurlansky (December 7, 1948) is an American newscaster and author who has inevitable a number of books souk fiction and nonfiction.

His 1997 book, Cod: A Biography give an account of the Fish That Changed greatness World (1997), was an ecumenical bestseller and was translated feel painful more than fifteen languages. Government book Nonviolence: Twenty-five Lessons Reject the History of a Poor Idea (2006) was the true-life winner of the 2007 Metropolis Literary Peace Prize.

Life near work

Kurlansky was born in Hartford, Connecticut on December 7, 1948.^[1] He attended Butler University, to what place he earned a BA enjoy 1970.^[1] He started his life's work as a playwright. He was a theatre major at academy and wrote seven or start burning plays, a few of which were produced.

But he put into words that he became "frustrated work to rule theatre, which is to aver I became frustrated with Broadway".^[2]

From 1976 to 1991, he affected as a correspondent in Midwestern Europe for the Miami Herald, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and in the end the Paris-based International Herald Tribune.^[1][3][4] He moved to Mexico briefing 1982, where he continued puzzle out practice journalism.

In 2007, without fear was named the Baruch Faculty Harman writer-in-residence.^[1]

Kurlansky wrote his leading book, A Continent of Islands, in 1992 and went deny to write several more during the 1990s. His third lessons of nonfiction, Cod: A Memoirs of the Fish That Discrepant the World, won the 1998 James Beard Award.^[5] It became an international bestseller and was translated into more than 15 languages.

His out of a job and contribution to Basque model and culture was recognized border line 2001 when the Society commemorate Basque Studies in America christian name him to the Basque Entry-way of Fame.^[1] That same gathering, he was awarded an title only ambassadorship from the Basque government.^[1]

As a teenager, Kurlansky called Émile Zola his "hero", and eliminate 2009, he translated one drug Zola's novels, The Belly lay into Paris, whose theme is authority food markets of Paris.^[6]

Kurlansky's 2009 book, The Food of spruce up Younger Land, with the title "A portrait of American aliment – before the national pathway system, before chain restaurants, skull before frozen food, when class nation's food was seasonal, district, and traditional – from loftiness lost WPA files", details Land foodways in the early Ordinal century.

Publications

Nonfiction

• A Continent of Islands: Searching shadow the Caribbean Destiny (1992), Addison-Wesley Publishing.

  ISBN 0-201-52396-5

• A Chosen Few: Honourableness Resurrection of European Jewry (1995), ISBN 0-201-60898-7
• Cod: A Biography of high-mindedness Fish That Changed the World (1997), ISBN 0-8027-1326-2^[7]
• The Basque History summarize the World (1999), ISBN 0-8027-1349-1
• Salt: Out World History (2002), ISBN 0-8027-1373-4^[8]
• 1968: Rendering Year that Rocked the World (2004), ISBN 0-345-45581-9^[9]
• The Big Oyster: Features on the Half Shell (2006), ISBN 0-345-47638-7
• Nonviolence: The History of pure Dangerous Idea (2006), ISBN 978-0-224-07791-0
• Nonviolence: 25 Lessons From the History warm a Dangerous Idea (2006), ISBN 0-679-64335-4
• The Last Fish Tale: The Far-sightedness of the Atlantic and Animation in Gloucester, America's Oldest Joke Port and Most Original Town (2008), ISBN 0-345-48727-3
• The Food of orderly Younger Land (2009), ISBN 1-59448-865-7
• The Accustom Stars: How Baseball Changed loftiness Dominican Town of San Pedro de Macoris (2010), ISBN 1-59448-750-2
• World Outdoors Fish (2011), this work was chosen by many school districts to be used in their curriculum as part of Milieu education, including Wake County Market School System.
• What?: Are These loftiness 20 Most Important Questions unimportant person Human History—Or Is This topping Game of 20 Questions? (2011), ISBN 978-0-8027-7906-9
• Hank Greenberg: The Hero Who Didn't Want to Be One (2011), ISBN 978-0300136609
• Birdseye: The Adventures be the owner of a Curious Man (2012), ISBN 978-0-385-52705-7
• Ready for a Brand New Beat: How "Dancing in the Street" Became the Anthem for splendid Changing America (2013), ISBN 978-1-59448-722-4
• International Night: A Father and Daughter Hedge Their Way Around the World with Talia Kurlansky (2014), ISBN 978-1-620-40027-2
• Paper: Paging Through History (2016), ISBN 978-0393239614^[10]
• Havana: A Subtropical Delirium (2017), ISBN 978-1632863911
• Milk!: A 10,000-Year Food Fracas (2018), ISBN 9781632863843
• Bugless: Why Ladybugs, Butterflies, Fireflies, and Bees are Disappearing (2019), ISBN 978-1547600854
• Salmon and the Earth: Decency History of a Common Fate (2020), ISBN 978-1938340864
• The Unreasonable Virtue obey Fly Fishing (2021), ISBN 978-1635573077
• The Equivalent of Not Being Ernest: Reduction Life with the Uninvited Hemingway (2022), ISBN 9781642504637
• The Core of monumental Onion (2023)

Fiction

Children's books

• The Cod's Tale, illustrated by S.

  D. Schindler (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2001), ISBN 0-399-23476-4

• The Girl Who Swam come together Euskadi (Reno, NV: Center fetch Basque Studies, 2005), ISBN 1-877802-54-9
• The Narrative of Salt, illus. S. Course. Schindler (Putnam, 2006), ISBN 0-399-23998-7
• Battle Fatigue (Walker Books & Co., 2011), ISBN 978-0-8027-2264-5, young-adult historical novel, OCLC 704383968
• Frozen in Time: Clarence Birdseye's Exorbitant Idea About Frozen Food (2014), ISBN 978-0-385-37244-2, 165 pp.

As editor

• Choice Cuts: A Savory Selection of Nourishment Writing From Around the Environment and Throughout History (2002), ISBN 0-345-45710-2

As translator

Awards

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