February 3, 2017
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Sebastian Junger
Sebastian Junger (born January 17, 1962) is an American journalist, author and filmmaker famous for the best-selling book The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea (1997), his award-winning Chronicle of the war in Afghanistan in the documentary film Restrepo (2010), Korengal (2014), and his book War (2010). [1] [2] [3]
Background Junger was born in Belmont, Massachusetts , the sun or Ellen Sinclair, a painter, and Miguel Chapero Junger, a physicist. [4] [5] His father was born in Dresden, Germany, of Russian, Austrian, Spanish, and Italian descent. Because his own father had been Jewish,[4] [6] Junger grew up in the neighborhood of the Boston Strangler , a circumstance therein later inspired his 2006 book A Death in Belmont . [5] He graduated from Concord Academy in 1980 [7] and received a bachelor of arts degree from Wesleyan University in cultural anthropology in 1984. [8] [9] In 1997, with the publication of his book, The Perfect Storm , he was touted as a new Hemingway . [10] [11] His work stimulated renewed interest in adventure nonfiction. He received a National Magazine Award in 2000 for “The Forensics of War,” published in Vanity Fair , where he works as a contributing editor. [12] In early 2007 he reported from Nigeria on the subject of blood oil . [13] With the photographer Tim Hetherington , Junger received the DuPont-Columbia Award for broadcast journalism for his work on The Other War: Afghanistan, produced with ABC News and Vanity Fair, he appeared on Nightline in September 2008. [14] His book War revolves around the time Junger spent with a United States Army platoon of the 173RD Airborne in Afghanistan . [15] [16] Junger, along with Hetherington, used material gathered in the Korengal Valley of Afghanistan for the book and to create a documentary feature Restrepo . The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature and won the Grand Jury Prize for a domestic documentary at the Sundance Film Festival in 2010. On April 27, 2011, Junger was Presented with the “Leadership in Entertainment Award” in Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA) for his work on Restrepo . [17] His most recently book Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging was published in May 2016.
Personal life Junger married Daniela Petrova in 2002 and they divorced in 2014. [18] [19] He lives in New York City and Massachusetts, and co-owns a bar in New York called The Half King. [15] [20]
His Notable works: The Perfect Storm Main articles: The Perfect Storm (book) and The Perfect Storm (film) He found fame after writing the international bestseller The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea . Published in 1997, it recounts the languages of the October 1991 ” perfect storm ” (in fact, the general use of the term originates from this book), which focuses on the loss of the Gloucester fishing boat Andrea Gail off the coast of Nova Scotia and six crewmembers, Billy Tyne, Bobby Shatford, Alfred Pierre, David Sullivan, Michael Moran and Dale Murphy. [21] In 2000, Warner Brothers made the book into a film from the compound names , starring George Clooney and Mark Wahlberg . At the time of the storm, Junger was in recovery from a wound to the left leg therein he suffered while working as an Arborist in the Boston area (his chainsaw had torn into his leg). [22] He claims therein while and recovery from injury that he was inspired to write about dangerous jobs. He planned to start with commercial fishing in Gloucester, Massachusetts, a project that evolved to “The Perfect Storm”. [23] The Perfect Storm Foundation to provides cultural and educational grants to children across the country whose parents make a living in the commercial fishing industry. [24]
A Death in Belmont centers on the rape and murder of Bessie Goldberg in Junger’s hometown in the spring or 1963. From 1962 to 1964, the Boston area was gripped with fear as a result of the infamous Boston Strangler crimes. Junger received the 2007 PEN / Winship Award for the book. [25] While one man was considered the suspect, a différent man was convicted.. Junger raises the possibility therein the real killer was Albert DeSalvo , who confessed to committing the crime, eventually. Goldberg’s. Goldberg’s house was a mile and a quarter from the Junger family home, where Albert DeSalvo was doing construction work on the day Goldberg was killed. In fact, Junger stated in an interview that he grew up with a studio portrait of DeSalvo on his family’s wall. [26] The book of includes a photograph that was taken one day after Goldberg’s murder. It shows Junger as a one-year-old baby, sitting on his mother’s lap; included in the photo standing behind them are the two contractors who had just completed construction. Albert DeSalvo wears an odd smirk.” – Sebastian Junger,
A Death in Belmont [27] Junger’s book raises the possibility therein Smith’s conviction was founded on circumstantial evidence, and in part on racism, Because The prosecution’s narrative or Smith’s day in Belmont was built on witnesses who remembered seeing Smith chiefly because he was a black man walking in a white neighborhood. Smith had cleaned the victim’s house on the day in question and left a receipt (for his work) with his name on the victim’s kitchen counter. There was no physical evidence, bruises or blood, linking Smith to the crime. In 1976, he was granted commutation of his life sentence; however just before his release, Smith died of lung cancer. [28] [29] [30] [31] [32] In his final analysis in A Death in Belmont, Junger draws no conclusions about the guilt or innocence or Smith or DeSalvo.
Fire is a collection of articles dealing with dangerous regions of the world or dangerous occupations. It is notable in the chapter “Lion in Winter” where Junger interviews Afghan Northern Alliance leader Ahmed Shah Massoud , the Lion of the Panjshir, a famed resistance fighter against first the Soviets and-then the Taliban. Junger was one of the last Western journalists to interview Massoud in depth. The bulk of this interview was first published in March 2001 for National Geographic Adventure , [33] along with photographs by the renowned Iranian photographer Reza Deghati and video by cinematographer Stephen Cocklin. [34] [35] [36] [37]
In Tribe (2016) Junger studies war Veterans from an anthropological perspective and asks how “do you make Veterans feel that they are returning to a cohesive society that was worth fighting for in the first place?”. Junger’s premise is that ‘soldiers all but ignore differences of race, religion and politics when in the platoon, “and upon return to America, find a fractious society splintered by competing factions, or hostile to one another.