Jane Kramer

Jane Kramer ( born August 7, 1938 in Providence, Rhode Iceland ) is an American journalist and writer.

After completing a degree in English literature at Vassar College in 1959 and Columbia University, she gained her first journalistic experience at The Morningsider and The Village Voice. 1964 William Shawn was aware of her and engaged her for the magazine The New Yorker.

In the 1970s, she shuttled between the U.S. and Europe. In 1981, she established herself as a permanent European correspondent and columnist ( "Letter from Europe" ) of New York. In addition to the coverage of European heads of state and business people and major events, she developed a special interest in outsiders who are difficult in the "New Europe " were grafted to.

After the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, they turned to the topic of right-wing militias and published in 2003 the book The Lone Patriot.

Kramer won numerous awards, including an Emmy Award. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Council on Foreign Relations and a founding board member of the Committee to Protect Journalists. She has taught, among others, at Princeton University, Sarah Lawrence College, and as a Regents Professor at UC Berkeley, in the fall of 1999 she was Sidney Harman Writer -in -Residence at Baruch College of the City University of New York.

In 2006 she was admitted as a knight in the Legion of Honor. She lives with her husband Vincent Crapanzano in Paris and New York.

Selection of works

• The last cowboy. Penguin Books, New York, NY [u a ], 1990.
• Weird Europeans: Faces and stories. Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 1994.
• Under German. Letters from a small country in Europe. Edition Tiamat, Berlin 1996. ISBN 3-923118-94-5
• The Lone Patriot: The Short Career of an American militia officer. Edition Tiamat, Berlin, 2003.