Ted Scheinman

Photograph by Marvin Joseph

About The Author

Ted Scheinman is a senior editor at Smithsonian magazine and contributing editor at the Los Angeles Review of Books. His 2018 debut, Camp Austen: My Life as an Accidental Jane Austen Superfan, garnered enthusiastic praise on both sides of the Atlantic and beyond. His essays and reporting have appeared in such publications as The New York Times, GQ, The Atlantic, The New Republic, The Paris Review, and Slate. He and his wife make their home in Washington, DC.

Books by Ted Scheinman

Jolt

My Electric Journey Out of Darkness

By Ted Scheinman
Reminiscent of William Styron’s Darkness Visible but with an appealing vein of humor, a magnificently written memoir of riding the depression roller coaster, choosing electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), and finding the path to happiness—with fascinating side-journeys into the nature...
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