Ben Sherwood
Autor de Siempre a mi lado : La muerte y la vida de Charlie St. Cloud
Sobre El Autor
Ben Sherwood is a senior producer for "NBC Nightly News." He has written numerous articles as an investigative journalist. This is his first book written under his own name. He lives in New York City, where he is at work on his next novel. (Publisher Provided)
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Conocimiento común
- Nombre canónico
- Sherwood, Ben
- Otros nombres
- Barclay, Max
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1964-02-12
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugares de residencia
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Educación
- Harvard University
Oxford University (MA) - Ocupaciones
- journalist
author
television producer - Organizaciones
- NBC
ABC - Premios y honores
- Rhodes Scholar
- Agente
- Evans, Joni
- Biografía breve
- Ben Sherwood is a bestselling author, award-winning journalist and executive director of TheSurvivorsClub.org. From 2004 to 2006, he worked as executive producer of ABC’s Good Morning America during the two most successful seasons in the program’s history. Sherwood guided prize-winning coverage of the tsunami in Southeast Asia, the devastation of hurricane Katrina, and the presidential election of 2004
From 1997 to 2001, Sherwood served as senior broadcast producer and senior producer of NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw. From 1989 to 1993, he worked as a producer and associate producer at ABC News PrimeTime Live with Diane Sawyer and Sam Donaldson.
Sherwood is the author of two critically acclaimed best-selling novels: The Man Who Ate the 747 and The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud. Both books were translated into more than 13 languages and are in development as feature films. The Man Who Ate the 747 is also being developed as a Broadway musical.
Sherwood’s new book, The Survivors Club, is a non-fiction exploration of the science and secrets of who bounces back from everyday adversity and who doesn’t; who beats life-threatening disease and who succumbs; and who triumphs after economic hardship and who surrenders.
In January 2009, Sherwood founded TheSurvivorsClub.org, an online resource center and support network for people surviving and thriving in the face of all kinds of adversity.
A graduate of Harvard College and a Rhodes Scholar, Sherwood earned masters degrees in history and development economics at Oxford University. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife Karen Kehela Sherwood and their son Will.
Visit Ben Sherwood at the following sites:
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http://twitter.com/sherwoodben
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Charlie St. Cloud: A Novel por Ben Sherwood
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This is a story of the greatest love, ever. An outlandish claim, outrageous perhaps, but trust me-- And so begin the enchanting, unforgettable tale of J. J. Smith, Keeper of the Records for The Book of Records, an ordinary man searching for the extraordinary. J.J. has clocked the world's longest continuous kiss, 30 hours and 45 minutes. He has verified the lengthiest single unbroken apple peel, 172 feet and 4 inches. He has measured the farthest flight of a champagne cork from an untreated, unheated bottle 177 feet 9 inches. He has tasted the world's largest menu item, whole-roasted Bedouin camel. But in all his adventure from Australia to Zanzibar, J.J. has never witnessed great love until he comes upon a tiny windswept town in the heartland of America, where folks still talk about family, faith, and crops. Here, where he last expects it, J.J. discovers a world record attempt like no other: Piece by piece, a farmer is eating a Boeing 747 to prove his love for a woman. In this vast landscape of cornfields and lightning storms, J.J. is doubly astounded to be struck by love from the same woman, Willa Wyatt of the honey eyes and wild blond hair. It is a feeling beyond measure, throwing J.J.'s carefully ordered world upside down, proving that hears, like world records, can be broken, and the greatest wonders in life can not be qualified. Richly romantic, whimsical, and uplifting, The Man Who Ate the 747 is a flight of fancy from start to finish. It stretches imagination, bends physics and biology, but believe it just a little and you may find yourself reaching for your own records, the kind that really count. Written with tenderness, originality, and insight, filled with old-fashioned warmth and newfangled humor, it is an extraordinary novel, a found treasure that marks the emergence of a major storytelling tale.… (más)
Good read for a plane trip (which is where I read it). The book was better than the movie (as are most books). The afterward was my favorite part.
Well written and thought full, this is a story of two brothers, one younger boy who was suddenly killed because of a car accident at the hands of his older brother. As the younger child was dying, Charlie made a promise that the would meet to play softball every night at dusk.
Accustomed to being among the dead, Charlie works at a cemetary for many years, and has experience with those who die but hang on to life.
When Charlie falls in love, he is torn about the inability to meet his brother every night.
A thoughtful book, I can recommend.… (más)
Accustomed to being among the dead, Charlie works at a cemetary for many years, and has experience with those who die but hang on to life.
When Charlie falls in love, he is torn about the inability to meet his brother every night.
A thoughtful book, I can recommend.… (más)
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