Jack El-Hai
(He/Him)
As seen in:
LinkedIn,
Medium,
The Atlantic,
WIRED Magazine,
Mayo Clinic,
Scientific American,
The Daily Beast,
Smithsonian Magazine,
GQ,
Detroit News
and
Covers:
History, crime, science, and medicine.
THE NAZI AND THE PSYCHIATRIST (adapted to NUREMBERG). Coming: THE CASE OF THE AUTOGRAPHED CORPSE. DAMN HISTORY. Bookstore: bookshop.org/shop/el-hai
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Jack El-Hai’s Biography
Read Full Bio →Jack El-Hai is a journalist and book author who writes about history, science, medicine, and crime. He also coaches physicians in creative writing. His most recent book is The Lost Brothers: A Family’s Decades-Long Search, and he is also the author of The Lobotomist: A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness and The Nazi and the Psychiatrist: Herman Göring, Dr. Douglas M. Kelley, and a Fatal Meeting of Minds at the End of WW2. His magazine credits include…
Jack El-Hai’s Journalist Portfolio
Interview
See all 4 answers →What was your first job as a journalist?
I wrote history pieces for a city magazine.
How do you prefer to be pitched on stories?
Tell me a true story filled with shades of gray.
Why did you become a journalist?
Because I like forming unusual questions. Finding answers is satisfying, too, but not as satisfying.