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Meet Jay Bookman

Jay Bookman is columnist and deputy editorial page editor of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, specializing in foreign relations, the environment and state and local politics. He has twice won national awards for editorial writing — the National Headliner Award (1998) and the Scripps-Howard National Journalism Award (1993) — and the Green Eyeshade Award for editorial writing (2005) and is a seven-time winner of the Best of Cox Newspapers awards for editorials and for columns. In addition, his work on environmental issues has been recognized with the Aldo Leopold Award, granted by the Wilderness Society (1998), and the American Conservation Award (1994), by the National Wildlife Federation. He is a graduate of Pennsylvania State University with degrees in history and journalism. He has lived in Atlanta since 1990, and previously worked for newspapers in Washington state, Nevada and Massachusetts. His first book, “Caught in the Current,” was published by St. Martin’s Press in July, 2004.

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