Joshua Jelly-Schapiro

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Full Name	Joshua Jelly-Schapiro
Occupation	Geographer
Date Of Birth	Jun 16, 1979(1979-06-16)
Age	45
Country	United States
Horoscope	Gemini

Joshua Jelly-Schapiro Biography

Joshua Jelly-Schapiro is one of the most popular and richest Geographer who was born on June 16, 1979 in United States. Joshua Jelly-Schapiro (born on June 16th 1979) is an American writer and geographer. Jelly-Schapiro is the writer of Island People: The Caribbean and the World (2016) and co-editor together with author Rebecca Solnit, of Nonstop Metropolis The Complete New York City Atlas (2016). Jelly-Schapiro has been a frequent contributor for The New York Review of Books. He also wrote for The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, The Believer, Artforum, Transition, and The Nation.

Jelly-Schapiro’s debut book, Island People, was released in November 2016 by Knopf. Island People was described by Tom Gjelten in The New York Times as “a travelogue of love and scholarship” which “does the region splendid justice”. The Washington Post wrote that in The Washington Post, Amy Wilentz said she believed that “Every 50 years or so there should be a book like this one, in which a passionate, informed, dedicated and adventurous traveler skips from island to island in the bright blue palm-lined bowl and reassesses the contemporary significance of this world-historical outpost of the globe.” Marlon James Man Booker Prize winning author of A Brief History of Seven Killings and A Brief History of Seven Killings, stated that even though “many have tried … to get hold of, in its entirety, the volatile, beautiful, relentlessly shifting Caribbean … nobody has succeeded as dazzlingly.” The chapter written by Jelly-Schapiro on Cuba was extended into a brief book, released through Penguin Random House, entitled Cuba Then, Cuba Now. The volume contains new information about the consequences that followed Fidel Castro’s demise.

As an editor, Jelly-Schapiro written about topics such as the shifting political climate of Cuba and Bob Marley’s music Bob Marley, the history of phonography, as well as the books written by Paule Marshall. The essay he wrote “All Over the Map” which examines the way technology is changing people’s attitudes towards maps has been published in Harper’s in September of 2012. The author has also conducted interviews with prominent cultural figures, including the artists Harry Belafonte, Lady Saw and RZA and the film makers John Akomfrah and Joshua Oppenheimer and the artist Peter Doig; and the writers Geoff Dyer and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Jelly-Schapiro is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and wrote about Cuba and Haitian Masons and the devastating impacts from the hurricane Maria in the Caribbean. Recently, at the 2018 World Cup, Jelly-Schapiro guest edited a collection of essays by authors from all over the globe on their respective national teams. Jelly-Schapiro loves soccer who was a child of the sport and loves Arsenal.

Joshua Jelly-Schapiro Net Worth

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

Nonstop Metropolis The “imaginative atlas” of New York City Jelly-Schapiro compiled along with Rebecca Solnit, in 2016. It was the 3rd in a series of atlases that Solnit launched at San Francisco in 2010. It consists with 26 map of New York City, and accompanied with essays and interviews, Nonstop Metropolis was described by Sadie Stein in The New York Times as “a document of its time, of our time”. Maria Popova, on brainpickings.org said that the maps in the atlas “reveal the nature of all cities as functions of human intention with its always dual and often dueling capacities for good and evil, for revolution and repression, for power and prejudice, for creation and destruction.” In April of 2017 The Municipal Art Society awarded Nonstop Metropolis the Brendan Gill Prize which is awarded each year “to the creator of a specific work–a book, essay, musical composition, play, painting, sculpture, architectural design, film or choreographic piece–that best captures the spirit and energy of New York City.” The recent winners from the Gill prize include Lin-Manuel Miranda for his play Hamilton and Kara Walker, an artist Kara Walker, for her sugar-based work “A Subtlety.”

The Criterion Collection has Jelly-Schapiro has written essays on classics from film from all over the world like Memories of Underdevelopment and Buena Vista Social Club. The year 2018 saw him worked with British photographer Chris Ofili on the catalogue essay for the exhibition of Ofili’s “Paradise Lost,” a collection of Ofili’s images from the Caribbean island Trinidad that is accompanied by Jelly Schapiro’s piece on the history of culture associated with chain-link fencing.

Jelly-Schapiro grew up in Vermont and attended Yale University, where he studied literature and was also a member of Yale’s first graduating class in the new program in “Ethnicity, Race, & Migration”. He earned his PhD in geography at the University of California, Berkeley, where his doctoral thesis on the culture and geography of the Caribbean was awarded the Caribbean Studies Association’s Best Dissertation Prize in 2012.

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Joshua Ranked on the list of most popular Geographer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Joshua Jelly-Schapiro celebrates birthday on June 16 of every year.