fiction.wikisort.org - Writer

George Howe Colt is an American journalist and author.[1]

He is the author of November of the Soul: The Enigma of Suicide (1991), The Big House (2003),[2] Brothers (2012),[3] and The Game (2018).[4] He is married to author Anne Fadiman.

Colt was a staff writer for Life. His 2003 book about his last summer with his family at their summer house on Cape Cod, The Big House, was a finalist for the National Book Award.[5]

He graduated from Harvard University.[6] His uncle was the lawyer and politician James Colt; the Colts are related to the prominent Forbes family, through which a distant cousin is the politician and diplomat John Kerry.[7]

Bibliography

Books

• The Enigma of Suicide, 1991, Scribner
  • November of the Soul: The Enigma of Suicide, 2006, Scribner
• The Big House: A Century in the Life of an American Summer Home, 2003, Scribner
• Brothers: On His Brothers and Brothers in History, 2012, Scribner
• The Game: Harvard, Yale, and America in 1968, 2018, Scribner

Magazine articles

• Colt, George Howe, article on "Westchester cluster" of suicides that served as a source for his book, LIFE, 1984[8]
• Colt, George Howe & Hollister, Anne, "How Earthquakes Happen," LIFE, February 1989[9]
• Colt, George Howe, "See Me, Feel Me, Touch Me, Heal Me," LIFE, Sept. 1996[10]
• Colt, George Howe, "Were You Born That Way?," LIFE, 1998[11]

References

---