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 | Jane Kramer Staff Writer The New Yorker Power & Progressive Politics Jane Kramer has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1964 and has written the Letter from Europe since 1981. Before joining the magazine, Kramer was a staff writer for the Village Voice; her first book, Off Washington Square, is a collection of her articles from that paper. She has published two collections of essays from The New Yorker, Allen Ginsberg in America, and Honor to the Bride. Since 1970, most of Kramer’s work for The New Yorker has covered various aspects of European culture, politics, and social history. Many of these articles have been collected in three books: Unsettling Europe, Europeans, which won the Prix Européen de l’Essai “Charles Veillon” and was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle award for nonfiction, and The Politics of Memory: Looking for Germany in the New Germany. A notable exception to Kramer’s European reporting was her 1977 Profile of the pseudonymous Texan Henry Blanton. It was later published as a book, The Last Cowboy, which won the American Book Award for nonfiction. Her most recent book is Lone Patriot, an examination of the right-wing American militia leader John Pitner. |
