Jeffrey Kluger

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Jeffrey Kluger
Photograph of Jeffrey Kluger, a white man with grey hair
Born1954 (age 69–70)
NationalityAmerican

Jeffrey Kluger (born 1954) is an American senior writer at Time magazine and author of nine books on various topics, such as The Narcissist Next Door (2014); Splendid Solution: Jonas Salk and the Conquest of Polio (2005); The Sibling Effect (2011); and Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13 (1994). The latter work was the basis for Ron Howard's film Apollo 13 (1995). He is also the author of two books for young adults: Nacky Patcher and the Curse of the Dry-Land Boats (2007) and Freedom Stone (2011).

Early life and education

Jeffrey Kluger was born in 1954 to a

University of Baltimore Law School, where he earned a Juris Doctor degree in 1979.[citation needed
] He is a licensed attorney, and was admitted to the state bar in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Career

From June 1992 to September 1996, Kluger was a staff writer for Discover magazine, writing the humor column "Light Elements".[1] He also worked as a writer and editor for The New York Times, Business World Magazine, Family Circle magazine, and Science Digest.

Kluger began his work with Time magazine in 1996 specializing in

Fukushima disaster
in 2011, the battle to eradicate polio (2011) and the developing science of caring for premature babies (2014).

Kluger has authored numerous books, most notably Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13 (October 1994), with coauthor Jim Lovell. Lost Moon would become the basis for the Ron Howard film Apollo 13 (1995) starring Tom Hanks. Kluger would later be a technical consultant for, and appear in, the movie Apollo 13: The IMAX Experience.[citation needed]

Kluger has taught journalism at New York University.[2]

Awards and honors

In 2001, the

global warming.[3]

Bibliography

References

  1. Findarticles.com
    , retrieved June 4, 2008.
  2. ^ "Jeffrey Kluger", speaker profile, Time. Retrieved July 7, 2009.
  3. ^ "The Whitman Bassow Award 2001". Overseas Press Club of America Website. 2001.
  4. ^ Online version is titled "String theorist Brian Greene wants to help you understand the cold, cruel universe".

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