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
Interview
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.
When you're not at a computer, where are you most likely to be?
In an archive, interviewing someone, or cooking up story ideas.
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