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Jay Nordlinger

American journalist and author who serves as a senior editor at National Review. Nordlinger writes on politics, classical music, human rights, and culture. His books include Peace, They Say: A History of the Nobel Peace Prize (2012) and Children of Monsters: An Inquiry into the Sons and Daughters of Dictators (2015). He is also an accomplished classical music critic.

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1. Biography

A short life of the author

Jay Nordlinger is an American journalist and author who has been a senior editor at National Review since 2002. His journalism covers an unusually broad range: conservative politics, classical music, golf, international human rights, and cultural commentary.

Major Works

Peace, They Say: A History of the Nobel Peace Prize (2012, Encounter Books) surveys the history of the Nobel Peace Prize from its founding to the present, examining the committee’s most celebrated and most controversial choices.

Children of Monsters: An Inquiry into the Sons and Daughters of Dictators (2015, Encounter Books) investigates what happened to the children of twentieth-century dictators — Stalin, Mao, Saddam, Idi Amin, and others — and how they dealt with their parents’ legacies.

Nordlinger is also a regular music critic whose reviews and essays on classical performance appear in National Review and the New Criterion.

Collecting Nordlinger

Nordlinger’s books are published by Encounter Books and are modestly priced at $15–$30 for first editions. His journalism is his primary body of work.