Robert Kolker
Robert Kolker is a former contributing editor at New York Magazine, a former projects and investigations reporter for Bloomberg News and Bloomberg Businessweek,[1] and the author of Lost Girls,[2] a book that was a New York Times best-seller[3] and named one of Publishers Weekly's Top Ten Books of 2013.[4]
Career
Longform Journalism
As a journalist, Kolker's work has appeared in New York magazine, Bloomberg Businessweek, The New York Times Magazine, Wired, GQ, O magazine, and Men’s Journal. His work often takes the form of reported narratives. His 2006 investigation into sexual abuse in the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community[5] helped bring an abuser to justice and was nominated for a National Magazine Award. His exploration of an eighteen-year murder-exoneration case and the police tactics that can lead to false confessions[6] received the Harry Frank Guggenheim 2011 Excellence in Criminal Justice Reporting Award.
Kolker's 2004 story in New York Magazine about a public-school embezzlement scandal was adapted for the feature film Bad Education, starring Hugh Jackman. The film had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 8, 2019 before its rights were acquired by HBO.[7]
Lost Girls
Kolker's 2013 book Lost Girls recounts the lives of five sex workers murdered by the Long Island Serial Killer, and recounts the story of the hunt for the as-yet-unidentified killer. It also explores the implications of the emergence of on-line personal ads as a major vehicle for sex work. The book received wide critical acclaim.[8][9][10][11][12][13]
Lost Girls was adapted for the forthcoming feature film Lost Girls, directed by Liz Garbus and starring Amy Ryan.
Hidden Valley Road
Kolker's forthcoming book Hidden Valley Road is the nonfiction account of a midcentury American family with twelve children, six of them diagnosed with schizophrenia, that became science’s great hope in the quest to understand the disease.[14]
References
- ^ "Bloomberg's New York magazine raid continues with Kolker hire". Politico.com. Retrieved 11 January 2016.
- ^ Kolker, Robert. "Lost Girls". Lost Girls. Retrieved 16 January 2017.
- ^ "Nonfiction - Best Sellers". New York Times. Retrieved 14 November 2019.
- ^ "Best Books of 2013". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 16 October 2019.
- ^ Kolker, Robert (2006). "On the Rabbi's Knee". New York Magazine. Retrieved 3 November 2013.
- ^ Kolker, Robert (3 October 2010). "I Did It". New York Magazine. Retrieved 3 November 2013.
- ^ "Hugh Jackman's 'Bad Education' Acquired by HBO". The Wrap. 17 September 2019. Retrieved 16 October 2019.
- ^ "Gone Girls". The New York Times. 7 July 2013. Retrieved 13 August 2016.
- ^ "'Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery' is a tribute to five prostitutes". The Guardian. 6 August 2013. Retrieved 13 August 2016.
- ^ "Book review: 'Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery' by Robert Kolker - The Boston Globe". The Boston Globe. Retrieved 13 August 2016.
- ^ Kolker, Robert (2013). "Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery". books.usatoday.com. USA Today Books. Retrieved 13 August 2016.
- ^ Anderson, Patrick (7 July 2013). "Robert Kolker's rich, tragic 'Lost Girls' delves into prostitution of Internet era". Washington Post. Retrieved 13 August 2016.
- ^ "A Ghost Story That Lacks an Ending". The New York Times. 17 July 2013. Retrieved 13 August 2016.
- ^ https://www.amazon.com/Hidden-Valley-Road-Inside-American/dp/038554376X
