Jane Kramer (b.1938) is an American journalist and author known for her long-form reporting and cultural analysis. A staff writer for The New Yorker since 1964, she has written the “Letter from Europe” column since 1981.
Born in Providence, Rhode Island, Kramer earned a B.A. in English from Vassar College (1959) and an M.A. from Columbia University (1961.) She began her career at The Village Voice, later moving to The New Yorker, where she gained recognition for in-depth profiles and political reporting.
Her notable books include Allen Ginsberg in America (1969) on the Beat poet, Honor to the Bride (1970) based on her travels in Morocco, and The Last Cowboy (1977) on American identity and downward mobility. Other works include Europeans (1988,) The Politics of Memory (1996,) and Lone Patriot (2002) on U.S. militia movements. Her most recent book, The Reporter’s Kitchen (2017,) is a collection of essays on food and culture.
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Prophecy today is hardly the romantic business that it used to be. The old tools of the trade, like the sword, the hair shirt, and the long fast in the wilderness, have given way to more contemporary, mundane instruments of doom—the book, the picket and the petition, the sit-in at City Hall.
—Jane Kramer
Topics: Prophecy
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