Amy Harmon
Amy Harmon | |
|---|---|
| Born | September 17, 1968 New York City, U.S. |
| Education | University of Michigan (BA) |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Children | 1 |
| Awards | Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting (2008) National Academies Communication Award (2011) |
Amy Harmon (born September 17, 1968) is an American journalist.Guggenheim Fellow.[3] Her daughter Sasha Matthews is a cartoonist.
Early life and education
Harmon was born in
Michigan Daily
, the university's student newspaper.
Career
Harmon was hired as a reporter for the Los Angeles Times and briefly covered the auto industry from the paper's Detroit bureau, before she moved to Los Angeles and started writing mainly about digital technology and science.
In 1997, she joined The New York Times. Three years later she wrote an article about a black internet entrepreneur and his white partner, "A Limited Partnership: The Black Internet Entrepreneur Had the Idea; The White One Became the Venture's Public Face".Casey Medal for excellence in reporting on children and families.[7]
In 2013, she wrote the short
e-book, Asperger Love: Searching for Romance When You're Not Wired to Connect, published in 2013 by New York Times/Byliner.[8]
Bibliography
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Books
- Harmon, Amy (2013). Asperger love : searching for romance when you're not wired to connect (ebook). New York Times/Byliner.
Essays and reporting
- Harmon, Amy (February–March 2014). "Citrus fightback : race to save the orange by altering its DNA". Special Feature. Food Wars. Cosmos. 55: 56–62.
References
- ^ a b Amy Harmon biography, nytimes.com. Retrieved on April 8, 2008
- ^ a b "The 2008 Pulitzer Prize Winners: Explanatory Reporting". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved November 4, 2013. With short biography and reprints of 10 works (N.Y. Times articles March 18 to December 28, 2007).
- ^ "Amy Harmon - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation". Archived from the original on April 14, 2013. Retrieved April 20, 2013. Guggenheim Foundation Biography.
- ^ "A Limited Partnership". Amy Harmon. The New York Times. June 14, 2000. Reprint as part of 2001 Pulitzer Prize portfolio.
- ^ "National Reporting". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved October 27, 2013. With reprints of 10 works (June 2000 N.Y. Times articles).
- ^ "National Academies Keck Futures Initiative - Communication Awards". www.keckfutures.org. Archived from the original on October 29, 2013. Retrieved January 24, 2018.
- ^ "2012 JCCF Casey Medals". www.journalismcenter.org. Retrieved January 24, 2018.
- ^ "Asperger Love | A Byliner Original Story". Archived from the original on August 31, 2013. Retrieved April 20, 2013.. Asperger Love: A New York Times / Byliner Original by Amy Harmon.
