Mark Jacobson

Photograph © Nancy Cardozo

About The Author

Mark Jacobson, a contributing editor at New York magazine, is a frequent contributor to The Village VoiceNational GeographicNatural History MagazineMen’s JournalEsquire, and other publications. He is the author of 12,000 Miles in the Nick ofThe KGB Bar Nonfiction Reader, and Teenage Hipster in the Modern World, and the novels, Gojiro and Everyone and No On. He lives in Brooklyn.

Books by Mark Jacobson

The Lampshade

A Holocaust Detective Story from Buchenwald to New Orleans

Few growing up in the aftermath of World War II will ever forget the horrifying reports that Nazi concentration camp doctors had removed the skin of prison ers to make common, everyday lampshades.
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