Jane Kramer

Jane Kramer (born August 7, 1938) is an American journalist who is the European correspondent for The New Yorker; she has written a regular "Letter from Europe" for twenty years. Kramer has also written nine books, the latest of which, Lone Patriot (2003), is about a militia in the American West. Her other books include The Last Cowboy, Europeans and The Politics of Memory.

Biography

Kramer was born in Providence, Rhode Island. She has a B.A. in English from Vassar College and an M.A. in English from Columbia University.

Kramer has won an Emmy Award for documentary filmmaking. Some of her other awards include the American Book Award, National Magazine Award, Front Page Award, and the Prix européen de l'essai Charles Veillon.

Kramer is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a founding director of the Committee to Protect Journalists. She has taught at Princeton University, Sarah Lawrence, CUNY, and the University of California, Berkeley.

Since 2006, Kramer has been a Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur.

Bibliography

Books

• Lone Patriot: The Short Career of an American Militiaman, Random House, 2002
• The Politics of Memory: Looking for Germany in the New Germany, Random House, 1996
• Unter Deutschen, Edition Tiamat (Berlin), 1996
• Whose Art Is It, Duke University Press, 1994
• Sonderbare Europäer, Die Andere Bibliothek/Eichborn (Frankfurt), 1993
• Eine Amerikanerin in Berlin, Edition Tiamat (Berlin), 1993
• Europeans, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1988
• Unsettling Europe, Random House, 1980
• The Last Cowboy, Harper & Row, 1977
• Honor to the Bride Like the Pigeon That Guards Its Grain Under the Clove Tree, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1970
• Allen Ginsberg in America, Random House, 1969
• Off Washington Square: A Reporter Looks at Greenwich Village, N.Y., Duell, Sloan & Pierce, 1963

References

• Lone Patriot (2003) ISBN 1-4000-3232-6

External links

• Biography at Newnewjournalism.com
• Biography at the Baruch College