Jonathan Rosen

Jonathan Rosen is an American author and editor.

Education

Rosen graduated from Yale and began graduate studies working towards a PhD in English at the University of California, Berkeley.[1] He dropped out of graduate school to become a writer.[1]

Career

In 1990 he was hired by The Jewish Daily Forward to create an arts section of the paper's then newly editorially independent English language edition, a job he held for 10 years.[1] As of 2007 he was editorial director of the Nextbook.[1]

Rosen's Joy Comes in the Morning (2004) features the 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.[2]

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 graduate with schizophrenia who killed his fiancée in 1998 during a psychotic episode.[3] The book has received high critical acclaim.[4][5][6][3]

Media

Bibliography
  • Rosen, Jonathan (1997). Eve's apple : a novel. New York: Random House. ISBN 9780679448167.
  • The Life of the Skies: Birding at the End of Nature MacMillan, 2008.[7][8]
  • 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)[9]
  • — (January 6, 2014). "The birds : why the passenger pigeon became extinct". The Critics. Books. The New Yorker. Vol. 89, no. 43. pp. 62–67.

References
  1. Harris, Ben (21 December 2007). "He's for the Birds; Jonathan Rosen weighs nature against civilization". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 3 June 2015.
  2. Zierler, W. (2006). A dignitary in the land? Literary representations of the American rabbi. AJS Review, 30(2), 255-275.
  3. The Best Minds. Penguin Books UK. April 18, 2023. Retrieved April 24, 2023.
  4. Anthony, Andrew (April 16, 2023). "The Best Minds review – rich examination of madness and the way the west deals with it". the Guardian. Retrieved April 24, 2023.
  5. McNally, Richard J. (April 7, 2023). "'The Best Minds' Review: Brilliance and Breakdown". WSJ. Retrieved April 24, 2023.
  6. "'The Best Minds' Could Be the Best Book of the Year". The New York Sun. April 14, 2023. Retrieved April 24, 2023.
  7. Sullivan, Robert (9 March 2008). "Birder of Paradise". New York Times. Retrieved 3 June 2015.
  8. Lyden, Jaki (24 February 2008). "Appreciating and Protecting the 'Life of the Skies'". National Public Radio. Retrieved 3 June 2015.
  9. Kermode, Frank (1 October 2000). "If It's Out There, It's In Here". New York Times. Retrieved 3 June 2015.
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