Elliot Ackerman

Quick Facts

Full Name	Elliot Ackerman
Occupation	Author
Date Of Birth	Apr 12, 1980(1980-04-12)
Age	44
Birthplace	Los Angeles
Country	United States
Birth City	California
Horoscope	Aries

Elliot Ackerman Biography

Elliot Ackerman is one of the most popular and richest Author who was born on April 12, 1980 in Los Angeles, California, United States.

Beginning in 2003, Ackerman served eight years in the U.S. Marine Corps, working as both an infantry and special operations officer. He served multiple tours of duty in the Middle East and Southwest Asia. As a Marine Corps Special Operations Team Leader, he was the primary combat advisor to a 700-man Afghan commando battalion responsible for capture operations against senior Taliban leadership. He also led a 75-man platoon that aided in relief operations in post-Katrina New Orleans. He was briefly attached to the Ground Branch of the Central Intelligence Agency’s Special Activities Division.

Ackerman studied literature and history at Tufts University, graduating summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa in 2003, completing a special program in which he earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in five years, rather than the usual six. He holds a master’s degree in International Affairs from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. He also completed many of the United States military’s most challenging special operations training courses.

Elliot Ackerman Net Worth

Elliot Ackerman is one of the richest Author from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Elliot Ackerman 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Elliot Ackerman (born April 12, 1980) is an American author. He is the son of businessman Peter Ackerman and author Joanne Leedom-Ackerman and the brother of mathematician and wrestler Nate Ackerman.

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Ackerman’s third novel Waiting for Eden was published September 25, 2018, by Alfred A. Knopf. The book was nominated for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, and it won the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation’s James Webb Award. Author Anthony Swofford wrote in The New York Times Book Review, “Masterly…Brilliant…In his short novel, Ackerman accomplishes what a mountain of maximalist books have rarely delivered over tens of thousands of pages and a few decades: He makes pure character-based literary art, dedicated only to deeply human storytelling…Cusk’s Outline trilogy and Jenny Offill’s Dept. of Speculation have created similarly shimmering portraits of humans at rest and fury…Ackerman explore[s] conflicted, confused true love in such elegant and humane ways that you will come to question everything you think you know about the meanings of romance and fidelity…The micro-level power of his unadorned and direct prose lies in no less than an attempt to contain and dramatize the darkness and light of our souls…To identify this book as a novel seems inadequate: Waiting for Eden is a sculpture chiseled from the rarest slab of life experience.” The novel was one of the best books of the year on Amazon, NPR, and the Washington Post and was a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice.

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Forrest Ranked on the list of most popular Author. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Elliot Ackerman celebrates birthday on April 12 of every year.

Ackerman’s fourth book Places and Names: On War, Revolution, and Returning was published June 11, 2019 by Penguin Press. The memoir was nominated for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Non-fiction. TIME magazine named it a must-read book of 2019 and said, “In Places and Names, perhaps the most striking war memoir of the year, Ackerman attempts to make sense of the reasons he served (personal and geopolitical), the people he met, the kinship he felt and the reckonings he has since confronted. Places and Names is as clean and spare in its prose as it is sharp and unsparing in timely observation.” It was also a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice.

Who is Elliot Ackerman's wife?

“You can’t ignore the fact that everyone who was there volunteered,” says Ackerman, 34, via Skype from Istanbul, where he lives with his wife, Xanthe , and their two children.

What rank was Elliot Ackerman?

Commissioned as a second lieutenant in May 2003, his classmates lamented that they had “missed the war” in Iraq, but by the time they finished training, a virulent insurgency had developed there, and Ackerman found himself leading an infantry platoon in combat six weeks after graduation.