Walter Isaacson

Walter Isaacson (20 de mayu de 1952, Nueva Orleans) ye un periodista, escritor y biógrafu d'Estaos Xuníos.

Walter Isaacson
Vida
Nacimientu	Nueva Orleans[1], 20 de mayu de 1952[2] (72 años)
Nacionalidá	Estaos Xuníos [3]
Residencia	Louisiana
Estudios
Estudios	Universidá de Harvard Pembroke College (es) Isidore Newman School (en)
Llingües falaes	inglés[4]
Oficiu	periodista, escritor, biógrafu
Trabayos destacaos	Einstein. His life, his universe (en) The Code Breaker (en)
Premios	ver Medalla Nichols-Chancellor beca Rhodes  (1974) [5] Premio Literario Carl Sandburg  (2013) [6] Medaya Benjamin Franklin  (2013) Jefferson Lecture  (2014) Medaya Nacional d'Humanidaes  (2023)
Nominaciones	ver Premio Pulitzer de Biografía o Autobiografía (es) (1993)[7]
Miembru de	Academia de les Artes y les Ciencies d'Estaos Xuníos
IMDb	nm0410596

Biografía

Natural de Nueva Orleans, Isaacson llogró la so B.A. n'historia y lliteratura na Universidá Harvard en 1974. Darréu foi usufructuariu d'una beca Rhodes nel Pembroke College de la Universidá d'Oxford.

Empezó la so carrera periodística nel Sunday Times de Londres. Darréu foi presidente y CEO de la CNN y editor xerente de Time Magazine.

Ocupó tamién cargos públicos: en 2005, nel so estáu natal trabayó na Luisiana Recovery Authority, al cargu de la recuperación tres el desastre del furacán Katrina. Dos años dempués integró'l comité d'amistá EE. XX. - Palestina.^[8] Hillary Clinton nomar vicepresidente de Partners for a New Beginning, en procura de llograr asociaciones públicu-privaes nel mundu musulmán.^[9] Tamién copreside la mesa de diálogu EE. XX. - Vietnam.^[10] En 2009, Obama nomar presidente del Broadcasting Board of Governors, qu'alministra La Voz d'América, Radio Europa Llibre y otres radioemisoras internacionales.^[11]

Na actualidá ye presidente y CEO del Aspen Institute, un centru d'estudios políticos y educativos en Washington, D.C.

Escribió les biografíes de Henry Kissinger, Benjamin Franklin, Albert Einstein y Steve Jobs. En 2012 foi escoyíu pa integrar la llista Time 100 de les persones más influyentes del mundu.^[12]

Obres

• The Innovators (2014)
• Steve Jobs (2011)^{[13][14][15][16]}
• American Sketches (2009)
• Einstein: His Life and Universe (2007)^[17]
• Benjamin Franklin: An American Life (2003)
• Kissinger: A Biography (1992)
• The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made (1986) – co-authored with Evan Thomas

Referencies

1. «School board races attract big outside money» (4 payares 2012).
2. Afirmao en: Discogs. Identificador Discogs d'artista: 3344905. Apaez como: Walter Isaacson. Data de consulta: 9 ochobre 2017. Llingua de la obra o nome: inglés.
3. «‘Empire of Sin,’ by Gary Krist» (6 payares 2014).
4. Biblioteca Nacional de Francia. «autoridaes BNF» (francés). Consultáu'l 10 ochobre 2015.
5. Afirmao en: Rhodes Scholar Database. Data de consulta: 26 abril 2024.
6. URL de la referencia: https://www.chipublib.org/chicago-public-library-foundation-awards/.
7. URL de la referencia: https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-category/222.
8. President Bush Meets with U.S.-Palestinian Public-Private Partnership, White House press release
9. https://web.archive.org/web/20100429222327/http://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2010/04/140968.htm Secretary Clinton's Remarks at the Presidential Summit on Entrepreneurship, April 27, 2010.
10. U.S. and Vietnam Take Steps to Control Agent Orange Contamination, Associated Press, February 1, 2008
11. «President Obama announces new appointments». Archiváu dende l'orixinal, el 2009-11-20.
12. «Time magacín, April 18, 2012». Archiváu dende l'orixinal, el 2013-08-14.
13. "Steve Jobs biography: Release date moves up, skyrockets to No. 1", Los Angeles Times, October 6, 2011.
14. "Jobs Is Said to Assist With Book on His Life", New York Times, February 15, 2010.
15. "Steve Jobs authorized biography coming in 2012", HILLEL ITALIE, Associated Press National Writer, April 10, 2011.
16. "New Jobs Bio Cover Is All Apple With Pub Date of November" AllThingsD, August 15, 2011.
17. Dr. Miryam Wahrman (2 de payares de 2007). «Walter Isaacson’s Albert Einstein: Rebel with a cause». Jewish Standard. Archiváu dende l'orixinal, el 2022-03-31. «Isaacson had intended to complete the book about the legendary scientist at that point [the late 1990s], but learned that the last of Einsteinfs papers were not to be made available until 2006.… The Einstein archives that were unsealed in 2006 were located in the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, with copies of all documents also housed at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. Isaacson visited both sites to gather information but mostly went to Caltech, where the Einstein papers project is located…»

Enllaces esternos

• List of recent articles by Walter Isaacson
• List of recent articles about Walter Isaacson
• Harvard Business Review on the "Real Lessons of Steve Jobs"
• An interview with Walter Isaacson about his book "Einstein: His Life and Universe"
• The Scale of Einstein, From Faith to Formules, by Janet Maslin, The New York Times, April 9, 2007.
• Walter Isaacson's writer biog at Curtis Brown Literary Agency.
• «The Open Mind – An American Aristocracy (1986)». Internet Archive. Consultáu'l 10 de xunu de 2012.
• Booknotes interview with Isaacson on Kissinger: A Biography, September 27, 1992.

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