12 Facts About Jonathan Schell

Jonathan Edward Schell was an American author and visiting fellow at Yale University, whose work primarily dealt with campaigning against nuclear weapons.

Jonathan Schell's work appeared in The Nation, The New Yorker, and TomDispatch.

Jonathan Schell was a columnist for Newsday from 1990 until 1996.

Jonathan Schell taught at many universities, including Princeton, Emory, New York University, the New School, Wesleyan University and the Yale Law School.

Jonathan Schell became a persistent advocate for disarmament and a world free of nuclear weapons.

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In 2002 and 2003, Jonathan Schell was a persistent critic of the invasion of Iraq.

Jonathan Schell won George Polk Awards in 1976 and published essays on the Presidency of Richard Nixon, as well as the aftermath to the Watergate scandal, which led to the president's resignation in 1974, forming the basis to his book, The Time of Illusion.

Jonathan Schell studied at Dalton School in New York and The Putney School in Vermont, later on graduating from Harvard University in 1965, in Far Eastern history.

Jonathan Schell wrote The Village of Ben Suc when he stopped at Vietnam in 1966, en route back to the United States from Tokyo.

Jonathan Schell's next book, The Military Half: An Account of Destruction in Quang Ngai and Quang Tin, published in 1968, drew a graphic picture of the devastating effects of American bombings and ground operations on Quang Ngai Province and Quang Tin Province in South Vietnam, as he was a witness to Operation Cedar Falls, writing particularly on the destruction of Ben Suc.

Jonathan Schell was the brother of Suzanne Schell Pearce, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Orville Schell, former Dean of the University of California, Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.

Jonathan Schell was a graduate of The Putney School in Putney, Vermont.