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Jonathan Harr ( Beloit, 1948) è uno scrittore statunitense, particolarmente conosciuto per il libro A Civil Action, da cui nel 1998 è stato tratto l’ omonimo film con John Travolta . Indice. 1 Biografia. 2 Note. 3 Altri progetti. 4 Collegamenti esterni. Biografia. Jonathan Harr è nato Beloit, nel Wisconsin.
Jonathan Harr is an American writer, best known for the nonfiction work A Civil Action . Early life and education. Jonathan Ensor Harr was born 13 September 1948, in Beloit, Wisconsin, the son of John Ensor Harr (1 August 1926–14 November 2004), [1] a U.S. diplomat.
A Civil Action is a 1995 non-fiction book by Jonathan Harr about a water contamination case in Woburn, Massachusetts, in the 1980s. The book became a best-seller. It won the National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction. The case is Anderson v. Cryovac.
- Jonathan Harr
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It is loosely based on the true story of lawyer Willie E. Gary and his client Jeremiah Joseph O'Keefe's lawsuit against the Loewen funeral company, as documented in the 1999 New Yorker article of the same name by Jonathan Harr. It stars Jamie Foxx as Gary, Tommy Lee Jones as O'Keefe, Jurnee Smollett, Mamoudou Athie, and Bill Camp.
6 ott 2023 · The true story that inspired The Burial was the subject of a New Yorker article by Jonathan Harr, published with the same title in 1999.
Jonathan Harr is the author of the national bestseller A Civil Action, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction and The Lost Painting, a New York Times bestseller. He is a former staff writer at the New England Monthly and has written for The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine.
Fellow: Awarded 2010. Field of Study: General Nonfiction. Competition: US & Canada. Known for his exhaustive research and remarkable narrative skills, Jonathan Harr is a nonfiction writer whose first book, A Civil Action (Random House, 1995), earned him a National Book Critics Award, the Chicago Tribune ’s Heartland Award, the American Bar ...
