30 Facts About Sebastian Junger

Sebastian Junger was born on January 17,1962 and is an American journalist, author and filmmaker who has reported in-the-field on dirty, dangerous and demanding occupations and the experience of infantry combat.

Sebastian Junger is the author of The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea which was adapted into a major motion picture and led to a resurgence in adventure creative nonfiction writing.

Sebastian Junger covered the War in Afghanistan for more than a decade, often embedded in dangerous and remote military outposts.

Sebastian Junger was born in Belmont, Massachusetts, the son of Ellen Sinclair, a painter, and Miguel Chapero Sebastian Junger, a physicist.

Sebastian Junger grew up in the Belmont neighborhood, which he learned was the territory of the Boston Strangler.

Sebastian Junger was later inspired to write A Death in Belmont.

Sebastian Junger graduated from Concord Academy in 1980 and received a bachelor of arts degree from Wesleyan University in cultural anthropology in 1984.

Sebastian Junger began working as a freelance writer, often trying to publish articles on topics that interested him.

Sebastian Junger often took other jobs for temporary periods of time to support himself.

In 1997, with the success of his non-fiction book, The Perfect Storm, Sebastian Junger was touted as a new Hemingway.

In 2000 Sebastian Junger published an article "The Forensics of War," in Vanity Fair.

Sebastian Junger continues to work there as a contributing editor.

Sebastian Junger has a chapter giving advice in Tim Ferriss' book Tools of Titans.

Sebastian Junger's first daughter was born in 2016 when he was age 55.

Sebastian Junger co-owned a bar in New York City called the Half King.

In June 2020, Sebastian Junger had a near-death experience when his pancreatic artery ruptured while he was at home in Truro, Massachusetts.

Sebastian Junger has written a book about the experience, titled In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife.

Sebastian Junger said that while recovering from a chainsaw injury, he was inspired to write about dangerous jobs.

Sebastian Junger planned to start with commercial fishing in Gloucester, Massachusetts.

Sebastian Junger developed this project as The Perfect Storm, as he became more involved with learning about the crew members and the conditions and decisions that contributed to their deaths.

Sebastian Junger established The Perfect Storm Foundation to provide cultural and educational grants to children across the country whose parents make their living in the commercial fishing industry.

Sebastian Junger raises the possibility in his book that the real Strangler was Albert DeSalvo.

Sebastian Junger eventually confessed to committing several Strangler murders, but not Goldberg's.

Sebastian Junger suggests that Smith's conviction for Goldberg's death was influenced by racism.

Sebastian Junger was a famed resistance fighter against the Soviets and the Taliban.

Sebastian Junger was one of the last Western journalists to interview Massoud in depth.

In 2009, Sebastian Junger made his first film, the documentary feature Restrepo, as director with photographer Tim Hetherington.

The title refers to the outpost where Sebastian Junger was embedded, which was named after a combat medic, Pfc.

The visits from June 2007 to June 2008 to eastern Afghanistan to the Korengal Valley with Tim Hetherington resulted not only in their reports and pictures published in Vanity Fair in 2008 and the film Restrepo, but in Sebastian Junger's best-selling book War, which rewrites and expands upon his Vanity Fair dispatches.

Sebastian Junger sought to find out what combat did to, and for them, and seek a deeper understanding of why war is meaningful to them.