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Trevor Corson is a writer, and author of the books ''The Secret Life of Lobsters'' and ''The Story of Sushi''. Corson spent two years studying philosophy in China, three years in Japan living in temples and studying Buddhism, and two years working as a commercial lobsterman off the Maine coast. As a journalist Corson has written about food, religion, foreign affairs, medicine, and a wide variety of other topics for the ''New York Times'', the ''Wall Street Journal'', the ''Los Angeles Times'', the ''Boston Globe'', and the ''Atlantic Monthly''. Corson was the managing editor of the literary magazine ''Transition'', edited by Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. at Harvard University, during the years it won three consecutive Alternative Press Awards for International Reporting and was nominated for a National Magazine Award in General Excellence. Corson's first book, ''The Secret Life of Lobsters'', began as an ''Atlantic Monthly'' centerpiece article that was included in ''The Best American Science Writing''. ''The Secret Life of Lobsters'' was named a best nature book of the year by ''USA Today'' and ''Discover'', a best book of the year by ''Time Out New York'', and went on to become an Amazon worldwide bestseller in the popular-science category. Corson's second book, ''The Story of Sushi: An Unlikely Saga of Raw Fish and Rice'' (originally titled ''The Zen of Fish'' in hardcover), was selected as an Editors’ Choice by the ''New York Times Book Review''; it also won “Best American Food Literature Book” of 2007 in the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards and was selected as a Best Food Book of the Year by Zagat. Corson is a frequent public speaker and his work has been featured on CBS Sunday Morning, ABC World News with Charles Gibson, NPR’s All Things Considered and Talk of the Nation, as well as numerous local television and radio programs; he also appears on the Food Network’s hit TV show ''Iron Chef America'' and blogs for ''The Atlantic''. Corson is a recipient of a Japanese Ministry of Education Fellowship, has been a Knight Fellow at M.I.T. in the Investigative Science Journalism Boot Camp, and was a Visiting Writer at the University of Memphis. He is a co-author of the Blue Ocean Institute’s Guide to Ocean-Friendly Sushi and has been nominated for a 2010 “Seafood Champion” award from the Seafood Choices Alliance for his focus on sustainable ocean harvesting. Corson has also written for the ''Christian Science Monitor'' about social services in Finland,〔Trevor Corson (What Finland can teach America about true luxury ); Finns value time and solitude – along with a high quality of life for all citizens. May 1, 2009 Christian Science Monitor〕 among other topics. From 2011 to 2013, he developed an Asian Studies program at Brooklyn Friends School and taught in both the World Languages and the History Departments. As of 2014, Corson is pursuing an MFA in creative writing at Columbia University and is serving as a 2014-2016 Teaching Fellow in the writing program there. Corson is married to Finnish journalist Anu Partanen. ==Books== * * * 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「Trevor Corson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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