Jeff Sharlet

Who is Jeff Sharlet?

Jeff Sharlet is an American journalist and author. He is a contributing editor for Harper's and Rolling Stone. His work has also appeared in Lapham's Quarterly, Oxford American, The Washington Post, Mother Jones, New York, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Columbia Journalism Review, New Statesman, The Nation, The New Republic, Forward, Nerve, and The Baffler. He has taught at New York University and is Mellon Assistant Professor of English at Dartmouth College. He is the recipient of the Ivins National Journalism Prize and the Military Religious Freedom Foundation's Thomas Jefferson Award.

Sharlet is the co-creator of two online journals, Killing the Buddha, a literary magazine about religion, and The Revealer, a review of religion and media published by the New York University Center for Religion and Media, now edited by Ann Neumann, and the former editor-in-chief of Pakn Treger, a journal published by the National Yiddish Book Center.

Sharlet's mother, who raised him after his parents separated, was from a Pentecostal Christian background. His father is of Jewish background.