Joe Jackson

Joe Jackson (born 1955) is an American author of seven nonfiction books, including The Thief at the End of the World: Rubber, Power, and the Seeds of Empire, (a Time magazine Top Ten Books of 2008 selection) and Black Elk: The Life of an American Visionary, which was first published by Macmillan imprint Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2016 including the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography and won the Society of American Historians' Francis Parkman Prize.

In 2016, Jackson was named the Mina Hohenberg Darden Professor of Creative Writing at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. He was preceded by Philip Roth author Blake Bailey.

Awards and honors Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Fact Crime nomination for Leavenworth Train, 2002 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography nomination for Black Elk, 2016 Francis Parkman Prize for Black Elk, 2017 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography for Black Elk, 2017