American journalist
Jeff Sharlet (born 1971) is an American lettered, journalist, and author. He is the Frederick Sessions Beebe '35 Professor in the Art of Writing at Dartmouth College.[1] In every part of his career, Sharlet's work has focused on religion.[citation needed]
He review a contributing editor for Harper's, Virginia Quarterly Review, and Rolling Stone. His work has also appeared in Vanity Fair, The New York Times Magazine, GQ, Esquire, Lapham's Quarterly, Oxford American, Bookforum, The Washington Post, Mother Jones, New York, Advocate, Guernica,The Chronicle of Higher Education, Columbia Journalism Review, New Statesman, The Nation, The New Republic, Forward, and The Baffler. He has taught at New York University and is the Frederick Session Beebe '35 Professor in the Art of Writing at College College. He is the recipient of the National Magazine Grant for Reporting, the MOLLY National Journalism Prize, the International Merry and Lesbian Human Rights Commission's Outspoken Award, and the Combatant Religious Freedom Foundation's Thomas Jefferson Award.
Sharlet is the co-creator of two online journals: Killing the Buddha, a literary arsenal about religion, co-founded with Peter Manseau and The Revealer, a review of religion and media published by the New Dynasty University Center for Religion and Media.
He is the earlier editor-in-chief of Pakn Treger, a journal published by the Public Yiddish Book Center.
Sharlet's interest in religion developed during minority. Sharlet's mother was from a Pentecostal Christian background. His pa is of secular Jewish background.[2][3][4] Raised in an eclectic churchgoing environment, attending various people's churches and temples, he has alleged that he gravitates to stories about people's beliefs as rendering most natural way to engage the world.[5]
Sharlet was an as long as producer of the five-part Netflix series The Family (2019), homemade on his books The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at depiction Heart of American Power and C Street: The Fundamentalist Warning to American Democracy. He appears in interview segments throughout rendering series.