Jessica Bruder is an award-winning journalist and the author of Burning Book, a narrative nonfiction account of the annual Burning Man festival published by Simon & Schuster in August 2007. She has written for The New York Times and the op-ed page of The Washington Post, on topics including D.I.Y. culture, politics and post-9/11 reconstruction. Bruder has also worked as a staff reporter for The New York Observer and The Oregonian, where her feature writing won prizes from the Society of Professional Journalists and the annual Best of the West competition.
Bruder earned her master's degree and won a Pulitzer Traveling Fellowship at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. In 2000, she studied censorship in South Africa on an Alpha Delta Phi/David P. Patchel Memorial Fund grant from Amherst College, where she earned her bachelor's degree summa cum laude in English and French. She also received the college's Laura Ayres Snyder Poetry Prize.
The Los Angeles Times called Burning Book "quietly poetic" and added: "Of all the books, films and YouTube videos that have attempted to interpret Burning Man for the "default" world, Bruder's project is among the few that allows you to plant yourself at the scene and wallow in it, with your faculties and filters unclouded by an author's personal agenda." |
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