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Jeff Sharlet

Jeff Sharlet is the New York Times best-selling author or editor of eight books, including The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War and The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power, adapted into a Netflix documentary series. His reporting on LGBTIQ+ rights around the world has received the National Magazine Award, the Molly Ivins Prize, and Outright International’s Outspoken Award. His writing and photography have appeared in many publications, including Vanity Fair, for which he is a contributing editor; the New York Times Magazine; GQ; Esquire; Harper’s Magazine; and VQR, for which he is an editor at large. He is the Frederick Sessions Beebe ’35 Professor in the Art of Writing at Dartmouth College, where he lives in the woods with many animals.

Jeff Sharlet

Awards

Shortlisted — National Book Critics Circle Award, 2023

Books by Jeff Sharlet

Sweet Heaven When I Die: Faith, Faithlessness, and the Country In Between
Jeff Sharlet
Hardback, 2011
Linked narrative nonfiction from the best-selling author of The Family.
Sweet Heaven When I Die: Faith, Faithlessness, and the Country In Between
Jeff Sharlet
Paperback, 2012
“A master investigative stylist and one of the shrewdest commentators on religion’s underexplored realms.”—Michael Washburn, Washington Post
This Brilliant Darkness: A Book of Strangers
Jeff Sharlet
Hardback, 2020
A visionary work of radical empathy.
Sweet Heaven When I Die: Faith, Faithlessness, and the Country In Between
Jeff Sharlet
E Book, 2012
“A master investigative stylist and one of the shrewdest commentators on religion’s underexplored realms.”—Michael Washburn, Washington Post
This Brilliant Darkness: A Book of Strangers
Jeff Sharlet
E Book, 2020
“A luminous, moving and visual record of fleeting moments of connection.” —New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice

A visionary work of radical empathy.
The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War
Jeff Sharlet
Hardback, 2023
One of America’s finest reporters and essayists explores the powerful currents beneath the roiled waters of a nation coming apart
The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War
Jeff Sharlet
E Book
One of America's finest reporters and essayists explores the powerful currents beneath the roiled waters of a nation coming apart
The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War
Jeff Sharlet
Paperback, 2024
One of America's finest reporters and essayists explores the powerful currents beneath the roiled waters of a nation coming apart
This Brilliant Darkness: A Book of Strangers
Jeff Sharlet
Paperback, 2024
“A luminous, moving and visual record of fleeting moments of connection.” —New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice

A visionary work of radical empathy.