thumb|Seabrook at the 7 Moscow International Book Festival, 2012
John M. Seabrook Jr. (born January 17, 1959) is an American writer and journalist. He has worked for The New Yorker weekly magazine for many years, and has five published books.
Biography
Seabrook graduated from St. Andrew's School (DE) in 1976, Princeton University in 1981 and received an M.A. in English Literature from Oxford.
He began his career writing about business and published in a wide variety of magazines and newspapers, including Manhattan, inc., Harper's, Vanity Fair, GQ, The Nation, The Village Voice, and the Christian Science Monitor. To date, he has published five books besides contributing numerous articles to The New Yorker. A feature film by Marc Abraham based on his 2008 book Flash of Genius was released on October 2008, starring Greg Kinnear. His latest book, The Spinach King: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty was published in 2025.
Bibliography
Books
Essays and reporting
- Tim Maia.
- "The Flood Will Come : How to think about the formidable power of rivers." Annals of Disaster. The New Yorker. 101 (21): 12-18. July 28, 2025.
Critical studies and reviews of Seabrook's work
;Nobrow
;The song machine
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References
External links
- Official website
- Official Publisher's page for John Seabrook
- Webpages dedicated to John Seabrook
- Contributions to The New Yorker