Eric Klinenberg
Sociologist and author
Eric Klinenberg is an American sociologist and New York University professor. He wrote Going Solo, a book about the rise of living alone.
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American Born 1970 in Chicago, United States
About Eric Klinenberg
Eric Klinenberg is an American sociologist who studies cities, culture and media. He holds the Helen Gould Shepard chair in Social Science at New York University and directs its Institute for Public Knowledge. He is best known as a public sociologist. His first book, Heat Wave, looks at a disaster in Chicago and earned six prizes, both scholarly and literary. His second, Fighting for Air, examines the struggle over control of America's media. After it appeared, he gave testimony to the Federal Communications Commission and briefed the US Congress on his findings. He also wrote Going Solo and Palaces for the People. With Aziz Ansari he co-wrote Modern Romance, a #1 New York Times bestseller. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Time and The Guardian, and he has contributed to the radio program This American Life.