Ian Jackman

Ian Jackman was born in the United Kingdom and has lived in New York City for more than a generation. He began his publishing career at Random House as an assistant and editor and was Managing Director of the Modern Library. As a freelance writer and editor, he collaborated on New York Times bestsellers by authors such as James Carville, Pussy Riot founder Nadya Tolokonnikova. Amongst the other writers he hasworked with are Lorraine Bracco, Gov. Howard Dean, Emilio Estefan, Michael Feinstein, Bobby Flay, Soledad O’Brien, Gov. Bill Richardson, Geraldo Rivera, and Sen. Olympia Snowe.Jackman attended the University of Oxford and took an M.A. in Area Studies (Russia and East Europe) at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London.He lives in New York City with his wife Kara and their tripod hound Sunshine. Their two grown up childrenlive in Brooklyn and Los Angeles.