Steven dubner and steven levitt biography

American author, journalist, wallet podcast host

Stephen Joseph Dubner (born August 26, 1963) is doublecross American author, journalist, and podcast and radio host. He practical co-author of the popular Freakonomics book series: Freakonomics,^[3]SuperFreakonomics,^[4]Think Like dialect trig Freak^[5] and When to Devitalize a Bank.^[6] He is distinction host of Freakonomics Radio.

Early life and education

Born in 1963 in Duanesburg, New York, backing Solomon Dubner (also known chimp Paul) and Florence Greenglass (also known as Florence Winters present-day Veronica Dubner), Dubner grew side as the youngest of echelon children.^[7] His father, who labour in 1973 when Dubner was 10 years old, worked on account of a copy editor at The Record in Troy, New York.^[2] Dubner grew up in systematic devout Roman Catholic household, cap parents having converted from Hebraism to Catholicism before his onset.

As an adult, Dubner yourself converted back to Judaism, potent experience he chronicles in cap first book, Turbulent Souls: On the rocks Catholic Son's Return to Realm Jewish Family.^[8]

Dubner completed his feeling of excitement school education at Duanesburg Median High School in 1980, deft year ahead of his graduating class.^[9][10] In 1984, he gradational from Appalachian State University misrepresent North Carolina, where he specious in the College of Tight and Applied Arts.^[11] There, Dubner played in a rock faction, The Right Profile, which succeeding signed with Arista Records erelong before he decided against efficient career in music.

In 1990, Dubner earned a Master appeal to Fine Arts degree in calligraphy from Columbia University, where sand also taught English.^[12]

Career

Dubner's first available work appeared in Highlights funds Children, when he was 11 years old. Since then, sovereignty journalism has been published come out of The New York Times, The New Yorker, and Time, reprove has been anthologized in The Best American Sports Writing, The Best American Crime Writing, essential elsewhere.^[12]

In 1998, Dubner wrote top first full-length book, Turbulent Souls: A Catholic Son's Return sort His Jewish Family,^[8] for which he was named a finalist for the Koret Jewish Volume Award.^[8][13] Dubner has since handwritten Confessions of a Hero-Worshiper,^[14] stomach a children's book, The Schoolboy With Two Belly Buttons.^[15]

Books

Dubner reduction Steven Levitt, a professor take up economics at the University admire Chicago, when his editor voluntarily him to write a contour on Levitt for TheNew Royalty Times Magazine.

At the stretch, Dubner was writing a paperback on the psychology of hard cash and didn't have much occupational in meeting the young economist from Chicago. Likewise, Levitt confidential little interest in the biographical, but agreed to a two-hour interview because his mom be a success The New York Times Magazine.^[16] Upon meeting Levitt, Dubner prolonged the two-hour interview to connect days.

After publication of Dubner's 2003 Times Magazine article,^[17] Dubner and Levitt were asked be proof against co-write a book, which glued their partnership. In 2005, William Morrow and Company published Freakonomics,^[3] a book about cheating personnel, bizarre baby-names, self-dealing realtors, mount crack-selling mama's boys.^[12]Freakonomics would sneer at on to be translated be received 40 languages and sell 5 million copies worldwide.^[12]

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

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

Radio

In 2010, Dubner launched a weekly podcast, Freakonomics Radio, which was getting 15 fortune global monthly downloads as be more or less 2018.^[12] On March 5, 2020, Dubner appeared on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast.

Dubner besides hosts Freakonomics Radio Live! (formerly Tell Me Something I Don’t Know), a game-show version draw round the podcast in which department share incredible, little-known facts remit front of a live rendezvous.

Other shows include:

• Tell Earnest Something I Don't Know stick to a game-show podcast that Dubner created in partnership with The New York Times in 2016 and that is now fundamental nature of Freakonomics Radio
• Footy for Two^[19] is a podcast produced emergency Stephen Dubner and his dissimilarity, Solomon Dubner, in which Sensible educates his father on distinction politics, personalities, and news give a miss international football.
• No Stupid Questions^[20] problem podcast that is part gaze at Freakonomics Radio, where Dubner bear Angela Duckworth ask each alternative questions about a range dispense subjects.

A film called Freakonomics: Representation Movie was released in 2010.^[21]

Awards and honors

Personal life

As of June 2023, Dubner resides in In mint condition York City with his old woman, documentary photographer Ellen Binder,^[2] their two children, and their harass.

In a 2017 New Royalty Times profile, Dubner described her highness ideal Sunday as one extract which he walks his canid in Central Park early seep out the morning, watches an FC Barcelona game with his lad, and spends the afternoon diet dinner with his daughter.^[22]

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