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Ted Conover (born January 17, 1958, in Okinawa and raised in Denver, Colorado) is an American author and journalist. A graduate of Denver's Manual High School and Amherst College and a Marshall Scholar, he is also a distinguished writer-in-residence in the (Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute ) of New York University. He teaches graduate courses in the (Literary Reportage concentration ) and an undergraduate course on journalism and empathy. == Writing career == Conover's books of narrative nonfiction have typically been explorations of off-beat social worlds. He will often become an active participant in the subculture he is writing about. His first experiment with this melding of anthropological and journalistic method took place in 1980, when he rode freight railroads back and forth across the western United States with some of the last remaining hobos. This experience, initially rendered as an ethnography for an honors thesis, became the basis of his first-person book, ''Rolling Nowhere: Riding the Rails with America's Hoboes'' (1984). A few of those Conover met on the rails were Mexican nationals, and in his next book, ''Coyotes: A Journey Across Borders with America's Illegal Migrants'' (1987), he turned his attention to illegal immigrants, describing them as "the true modern-day incarnation of the classic American hobo." Conover spent a year traveling with Mexicans in order to write ''Coyotes''; he lived in a "feeder" valley in the Mexican state of Querétaro, spent time in Arizona, Idaho, California, and Florida, and crossed the border three times. The 1987 book came out in a new edition in 2006 with a new preface and subtitle: "A Journey Across Borders With America's Mexican Migrants." His next project, which he has stated he undertook in part to see whether the participatory approach could work with wealthier people, describes life in the mining-town-turned-lifestyle-capital of Aspen, Colorado, where Conover worked as a driver for the Mellow Yellow Taxi Company, the Aspen Times, and for a catering company. The result was ''Whiteout: Lost in Aspen'' (1991). A few years later, Conover took a job at Sing Sing prison in New York state, where he worked for nearly a year — without the state's knowledge — as a rookie correction officer. The resulting book, ''Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing'' (2000), was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize〔(Pulitzer Prize Non-Fiction )〕 and won the 2000 National Book Critics Circle Award in General Nonfiction,〔(National Book Critics Circle Award: Past Awards )〕 among other honors. For many months, prisoners and their visitors were banned from reading ''Newjack''; now, inmates who receive a copy have to wait up to several months while the state redacts several pages that it considers a threat to security. His most recent work is ''The Routes of Man: Travels in the Paved World'' (2011). Conover discussed it〔(Conover interview ), Paper Cuts blog New York Times Book Review〕 in the Paper Cuts blog of the ''New York Times Book Review.'' In addition to books, much of Conover's work has been published in magazines. He frequently contributes to ''The New York Times Magazine'', ''The New Yorker'', ''The Atlantic Monthly'', ''National Geographic Magazine'', ''Travel + Leisure'', and others.〔For a list, see (Ted Conover articles )〕 He is on the editorial board of the literary magazine The Common, based at Amherst College, and published work in the debut issue.〔(The Common ) official website.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ted Conover」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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