John Seabrook


John M. Seabrook Jr. is an American writer and journalist. He has worked for The New Yorker weekly magazine for many years, and has five published books.
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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.

Books

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Essays and reporting

Critical studies and reviews of Seabrook's work

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