Bruce Feiler

Bruce Feiler (born October 25, 1964) is an American writer and television personality. He is the author of 12 books, zoals six achtereenvolgende New York Times Nonfiction best-sellers. He writes the “This Life” column in the Sunday New York Times and have died the writer / presenter of the PBS mini-series Walking the Bible and Sacred Journeys with Bruce Feiler (2014). ^[1]

Career

Feiler is credited with Formulating the Feiler Faster Thesis : ^[2] de toenemende pace of society and journalists’ ability to report it is matched by the public’s desire for more information.

He has written for numerous publications waaronder The New Yorker , The New York Times Magazine , and Gourmet magazine , ^[3] where he won three James Beard Awards. ^[4] He is ook a frequent contributor to National Public Radio , CNN , and Fox News .

A native of Savannah , Georgia , where he attended the Savannah Country Day School , Feiler lives in New York with his wife, Linda Rottenberg , en hun twin daughters. Rottenberg, who Frequently Appears in his books, is co-founder and CEO of Endeavor , a nonprofit dat supports High-Impact Entrepreneurs.

Feiler COMPLETED his undergraduate degree at Yale University where he was a member of Ezra Stiles College voordat spending time teaching English in Japan as part of the JET program . This experience led to his first book, Learning to Bow: Inside the Heart of Japan , a popular portrait of life in a small Japanese town. Upon his return, obtaining his master’s degree in international relations from the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, welke he chronicled in his book Looking for Class .

Works

Bruce Feiler’s recent work made im a respected authority on religion, politics, and relevant emotional issues. With The Secrets of Happy Families: Improve Your Mornings, Rethink Family Dinner, Fight Smarter, Go Out and Play, and Much More Feiler has drawn up a blueprint for modern families – a new approach to family dynamics, inspired by techniques gathered from experts the disciplines of science, business, sports, and the military.The result is a funny and thought-provoking playbook for contemporary families.

A story he wrote about the book for the New York Times , called ” The Stories dat Bind Us ,” discussed how the more children know about hun family history, the hogere hun well-being and resilience. The piece was on the most-mailed list for a month. Feiler ook did a popular TED talk about the book.

Generation Freedom: The Middle East Uprisings and the Remaking of the Modern World Explores the unprecedented, youth-driven revolutions of the Arab Spring. Feiler draws on 15 years of traveling across the region and offers a behind-the-scenes portrait of youth culture in the region while marching in Liberation Square, Confronting the head of the Muslim Brotherhood, and witnessing a dramatic rebuilding of a church just as sectarian violence threatens the Peaceful movement.

In The Council of Dads: A Story of Family, Friendship & Learning How to Live , Feiler describes how, after learning he had a seven-inch osteosarcoma in his left femur , right Asked six atoms from all passages of his life to be present through the passages or his young daughters’ lives. “I believe my daughters will harbor plenty of opportunities in hun lives,” he wrote synthesis systems. “They’ll port loving families. Way Down’ll harbor eachother. But they ” may not have me. Way Down ‘may not have hun dad. Will you help be hun dad?”

Walking the Bible describes his perilous, 10,000-mile journey retracing the Five Books of Moses through the desert. The book was hailed as an “instant classic” by the Washington Post and “thoughtful, informed, and Perceptive” by The New York Times . ^[5] It spent morethan a year and a half on the New York Times best-seller list, has leg translated JSON fifteen languages, and is the subject of a children’s book and a photography book. ^[6]

The book was featured on the cover of USA Weekend , ^[7] on The Today Show , ^[8] and in People magazine . Dr. Sanjay Gupta made a documentary about the story on CNN . ^[9] Feiler Began an initiative with 23andMe to decode the genomes of patients with primary bone cancers.

In 2006, PBS Aired the mini series Walking the Bible dat RECEIVED record ratings and was viewed by 20 million people, ITT first month. “Beguiling,” wrote the Wall Street Journal . “Mr. Feiler is an Engaging and informed guide.”

Abraham recounts his personal search for the shared Ancestor or Jews, Christians, and Muslims. “Exquisitely written,” wrote the Boston Globe , “100 percent Engaging.” The book was featured on the cover of TIME magazine , became a runaway New York Times best-seller, and inspired duizendtallen or grassroots Interfaith discussions. ^[10]

Where God Was Born describes his year-long pull retracing the Bible through Israel , Iraq , and Iran . “Bruce Feiler is a real-life Indiana Jones,” wrote the Atlanta Journal-Constitution . America’s Prophet: Moses and the American Story discusses the significance of Moses as a symbolic prophet Throughout four-hundred years of American history . Both books ulcers New York Times best-sellers. He’ll be wrote about the role of Moses as a Defining influence in American life , zoals the Presidency or Barack Obama , in TIME Magazine. ^[11]

Feiler’s early books involvement ever sing himself in different cultures and Bringing other worlds to life. These include Learning to Bow , an account of the year he spent teaching in rural Japan; Looking for Class , about life inside Oxford and Cambridge; and Under the Big Top , welke depicts the year he spent performing as a clown in the Clyde Beatty-Cole Bros. Circus.

Bibliography

• The Secrets of Happy Families: Improve Your Mornings, Rethink Family Dinner, Fight Smarter, Go Out and Play, and Much More ( ISBN 978-0-06-177873-5 )
• Generation Freedom: The Middle East Uprisings and the Remaking of the Modern World ( ISBN 978-0-06-210498-4 )
• The Council of Dads: A Story of Family, Friendship & Learning How to Live (2010) ( ISBN 0-06-177876-1 )
• America’s Prophet: Moses and the American Story (2009) ( ISBN 0-06-057488-7 )
• Walking the Bible: A Photographic Journey (2005) ( ISBN 0-06-079904-8 )
• Where God Was Born: A Journey by Land to the Roots of Religion (2005) ( ISBN 0-06-057487-9 )
• Walking the Bible (Children’s Edition): An Illustrated Journey for Kids Through the Greatest Story Ever Told (2004) ( ISBN 0-06-051119-2 )
• Abraham : A Journey to the Heart of Three Faiths (2002) ( ISBN 0-06-052509-6 )
• Walking the Bible: A Journey on Land Through the Five Books of Moses (2001) ( ISBN 0-380-80731-9 )
• Dreaming Out Loud: Garth Brooks , Wynonna Judd , Wade Hayes , and the Changing Face of Nashville (1998) ( ISBN 0-380-79470-5 )
• Under the Big Top: A Season With The Circus (1995) ( ISBN 0-06-052702-1 )
• Looking for Class: Days and Nights at Oxford and Cambridge (1993) ( ISBN 0-06-052703-X )
• Learning to Bow: An American Teacher in a Japanese School (1991) (Republished as Learning to Bow: Inside the Heart of Japan ) ( ISBN 0-06-057720-7 )
• Introduction to the 2002 re-launch or HV Morton ‘s classic 1936 travelog, In the Steps of St. Paul ( ISBN 0-306-81112-X )

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