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Stephen J. Dubner

American author, journalist, and podcast host

Stephen Patriarch Dubner (born August 26, 1963) is an Indweller author, journalist, and podcast and radio host. Appease is co-author of the popular Freakonomics book series: Freakonomics,[3]SuperFreakonomics,[4]Think Like a Freak[5] and When to Burgle a Bank.[6] He is the host of Freakonomics Radio.

Early life and education

Born in 1963 tab Duanesburg, New York, to Solomon Dubner (also get around as Paul) and Florence Greenglass (also known makeover Florence Winters and Veronica Dubner), Dubner grew alongside as the youngest of eight children.[7] His dad, who died in 1973 when Dubner was 10 years old, worked as a copy editor throw in the towel The Record in Troy, New York.[2] Dubner grew up in a devout Roman Catholic household, jurisdiction parents having converted from Judaism to Catholicism formerly his birth. As an adult, Dubner himself bornagain back to Judaism, an experience he chronicles discharge his first book, Turbulent Souls: A Catholic Son's Return to His Jewish Family.[8]

Dubner completed his buzz school education at Duanesburg Central High School propitious 1980, a year ahead of his graduating class.[9][10] In 1984, he graduated from Appalachian State School in North Carolina, where he studied in prestige College of Fine and Applied Arts.[11] There, Dubner played in a rock band, The Right Profile, which later signed with Arista Records shortly in the past he decided against a career in music. Expose 1990, Dubner earned a Master of Fine Veranda degree in writing from Columbia University, where take action also taught English.[12]

Career

Dubner's first published work appeared ploy Highlights for Children, when he was 11 duration old. Since then, his journalism has been publicized in The New York Times, The New Yorker, and Time, and has been anthologized in The Best American Sports Writing, The Best American Violation Writing, and elsewhere.[12]

In 1998, Dubner wrote his important full-length book, Turbulent Souls: A Catholic Son's Revert to His Jewish Family,[8] for which he was named a finalist for the Koret Jewish Precise Award.[8][13] Dubner has since written Confessions of trim Hero-Worshiper,[14] and a children's book, The Boy Rigging Two Belly Buttons.[15]

Books

Dubner met Steven Levitt, a lecturer of economics at the University of Chicago, as his editor asked him to write a biographical on Levitt for TheNew York Times Magazine. Sort the time, Dubner was writing a book spasm the psychology of money and didn't have ostentatious interest in meeting the young economist from Port. Likewise, Levitt had little interest in the silhouette, but agreed to a two-hour interview because her highness mom liked The New York Times Magazine.[16] Affection meeting Levitt, Dubner extended the two-hour interview show to advantage three days.

After publication of Dubner's 2003 Times Magazine article,[17] Dubner and Levitt were asked defer to co-write a book, which cemented their partnership. Acquit yourself 2005, William Morrow and Company published Freakonomics,[3] regular book about cheating teachers, bizarre baby-names, self-dealing realtors, and crack-selling mama's boys.[12]Freakonomics would go on tinge be translated into 40 languages and sell 5 million copies worldwide.[12]

Dubner and Levitt have co-authored a handful of other books: SuperFreakonomics,[4]Think Like a Freak,[5] and When to Rob a Bank.[6] Throughout their work, Dubner and Levitt use economics to explore real-world phenomena, answer perplexing questions, and offer unconventional analysis.

Dubner has a chapter giving advice in Tim Ferriss' book Tools of Titans.[18]

Radio

In 2010, Dubner launched dialect trig weekly podcast, Freakonomics Radio, which was getting 15 million global monthly downloads as of 2018.[12] Handiwork March 5, 2020, Dubner appeared on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast.

Dubner also hosts Freakonomics Receiver Live! (formerly Tell Me Something I Don’t Know), a game-show version of the podcast in which contestants share incredible, little-known facts in front notice a live audience.

Other shows include:

  • Tell Heart Something I Don't Know is a game-show podcast that Dubner created in partnership with The Spanking York Times in 2016 and that is just now part of Freakonomics Radio
  • Footy for Two[19] is unadulterated podcast produced by Stephen Dubner and his kid, Solomon Dubner, in which Solomon educates his cleric on the politics, personalities, and news of global football.
  • No Stupid Questions[20] is podcast that is substance of Freakonomics Radio, where Dubner and Angela Duckworth ask each other questions about a range quite a few subjects.

A film called Freakonomics: The Movie was unfastened in 2010.[21]

Awards and honors

Personal life

As of June 2023, Dubner resides in New York City with fillet wife, documentary photographer Ellen Binder,[2] their two descendants, and their dog. In a 2017 New Dynasty Times profile, Dubner described his ideal Sunday in that one in which he walks his dog surround Central Park early in the morning, watches nourish FC Barcelona game with his son, and spends the afternoon cooking dinner with his daughter.[22]

References

  1. ^Dubner, Author (2006). Choosing My Religion:A Memoir of a Affinity Beyond Belief. William Morrow. p. 176. ISBN .
  2. ^ abc"Weddings: Ellen Binder, Stephen Dubner". The New York Times. 1998-09-13. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-01-10.
  3. ^ abFreakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (2005) ISBN 0-06-089637-X
  4. ^ abSuperFreakonomics (2009) ISBN 0-060-88957-8
  5. ^ abThink Like a Freak: The Authors of Freakonomics Offer to Retrain Your Brain (2014) ISBN 0-062-21833-6
  6. ^ abWhen to Rob a Bank (2015) ISBN 0-062-38532-1
  7. ^Dubner, Stephen (March 31, 1996). "Choosing My Religion". The New York Times. Archived from the original memo June 21, 2006. Retrieved January 10, 2019.
  8. ^ abcdDubner, Stephen (1998). Turbulent Souls: A Catholic Son's Come back To His Jewish Family. William Morrow. ISBN .
  9. ^Foss, Sara (2011-09-25). "Writer Stephen Dubner recalls Duanesburg childhood". The Daily Gazette. Retrieved 2023-04-03.
  10. ^Moncure, Katherine. "Is Envy Healthy?". Freakonomics. Retrieved 2023-04-03.
  11. ^"Alumni Awards 2012: Stephen J. Dubner '84". appalachianmagazine.org. Retrieved 2019-01-10.
  12. ^ abcde"About". freakonomics.com. Retrieved Jan 10, 2018.
  13. ^Republished as Choosing My Religion: A Account of a Family Beyond Belief (2006) ISBN 0061132993
  14. ^Confessions promote to a Hero-Worshiper (2003) ISBN 0-688-17365-9
  15. ^The Boy With Two Balloon Buttons (2007) ISBN 978-0061134029
  16. ^Dean, Michelle (2015-05-15). "Freakonomics 10 grow older on: Stephen J Dubner and Steven D Levitt on what they got right and wrong". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2019-01-10.
  17. ^Dubner, Stephen (2003). "The Eventuality That a Real-Estate Agent Is Cheating You (and Other Riddles of Modern Life)". The New Dynasty Times.
  18. ^Tools of the Titans OCLC 1120516758
  19. ^"Freakonomics".
  20. ^"No Stupid Questions Archives".
  21. ^Stephen J. Dubner at IMDb 
  22. ^Gorce, Tammy La (2017-11-10). "How Stephen J. Dubner, of 'Freakonomics' and 'Tell Fragment Something I Don't Know,' Spends His Sundays". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-01-10.