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John Freeman (born 1974) is a writer and literary critic. He is the editor of Granta, the former president of the National Book Critics Circle, and his writing has appeared in almost 200 English-language publications around the world, including The New York Times Book Review, the Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, and The Wall Street Journal. His book THE TYRANNY OF E-MAIL: The Four-Thousand Year Journey to Your Inbox was published by Scribner in October 2009.

Biography[edit]

Early Life and Education[edit]

Freeman was born in Ohio, grew up in New York, Pennsylvania and California, and graduated from Swarthmore College in 1996.

National Book Critics Circle[edit]

During his six years on the board of the National Book Critics Circle, Freeman launched a campaign to raise awareness of the cutbacks in book coverage in national print media and to save book review sections.

Granta[edit]

Freeman joined Granta in December 2008, became acting editor in May 2009, and was officially named editor in October 2009. While at the magazine, Freeman has edited Mary Gaitskill, Kenzaburo Oe, Rana Dasgupta, Dinaw Mengestu, Peter Carey, Jeanette Winterson, Natsuo Kirino, Victor LaValle, Herta Muller, Daniel Alarcon, Wole Soyinka, Aleksandar Hemon, Salman Rushdie, Yiyun Li, Tony D’Souza, Colum McCann, Ngugi wa Thiong’o, George Saunders, Marie Darrieussecq, Joshua Ferris, Aminatta Forna, Jim Crace, Richard Russo, and Chimamanda Adichie.