Kathryn Schulz
American journalist; New Yorker staff writer; won a Pulitzer for “The Really Big One”; wrote Being Wrong.
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- Kathryn Schulz is an American journalist and author from Shaker Heights, Ohio.
- After reporting from Latin America and working for Grist, she was the book critic for New York magazine, and in 2015 became a staff writer at The New Yorker.
- Her 2015 article “The Really Big One”, on the risk of a major earthquake and tsunami in the Pacific Northwest, won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing and a National Magazine Award.
- She wrote Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error (2010) and the memoir Lost & Found (2022), which won the 2023 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Memoir or Biography.
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- Education
- BA in history, Brown University (1996)1
- The New Yorker
- Staff writer from 20151
- Pulitzer Prize
- Feature Writing, 2016, for “The Really Big One”1
- Books
- Being Wrong (2010); Lost & Found (2022)1
- Lambda Literary Award
- Lesbian Memoir or Biography, 20231
- Family
- Married to Casey Cep, also a New Yorker staff writer; her sister is the MIT cognitive scientist Laura Schulz1
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