Jonathan green biography

Jonathan Green has a passion for creating and collecting cross-cultural fine art representing the themes of work, love, belonging and spirituality.

Jonathan Green is an internationally acclaimed and awarded professional artist who graduated from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in   His forty-year track record of creating art and extensive inclusions in museum collections and exhibitions throughout many countries has led to his being considered by numerous art critics and reviewers as one of our nation’s outstanding American artists and highly recognized visual master for capturing the positive aspects of American and African American Southern cultures, history, and traditions.

His high level of social interest and cultural commitments, and exhibitions have brought him international recognition through his travels and collections throughout North America, Europe, Central and South America, Caribbean, Africa, and Japan. It is Green's mastery of color and skillful use of the human figure in rural and urban environments, which allows him to preserve and share with the viewer a deep sense of community, and how the life challenges of work, love, and belonging are met.

Since Jonathan Green has received four honorary doctoral degrees from prestigious universities and numerous awards for his art, social, civic, academic, and cultural contributions.  In he was appointed by Mayor John Tecklenburg with the title of Ambassador for the Arts for the City of Charleston, South Carolina.

Mr. Green’s art and talents have been incorporated into productions of ballet, modern dance, music, opera, theatre, literature, film, fashion clothing and video documentaries throughout the United States. Currently Jonathan Green resides and paints in his studio located in downtown Charleston, South Carolina.

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Jonathan Green is an award-winning author and investigative journalist specializing in narrative non-fiction. His latest book, Sex Money Murder: A Story of Crack, Blood and Betrayal tells the story of the infamous Bronx gang through inside access to gangsters and the federal agents, police officers and prosecutors who took them down.

He has written for numerous publications including Men's Journal, Virginia Quarterly Review, GQ, the New York Times, The Sunday Times Magazine, Best Life, Esquire, Town and Country, Garden and Gun, Men's Health, the Guardian, Fast Company and the Financial Times Magazine among many others all over the globe. He holds a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Nonfiction from Goucher College.

His first book, Murder in the High Himalaya (PublicAffairs) won the Banff Mountain Book Competition in the Mountain and Wilderness Category. It also won the American Society of Journalists and Authors Outstanding Non Fiction Book of the Year. The book is endorsed by the Dalai Lama and actor Richard Gere.

He has reported from Sudan on jihadist militias, the high Arctic on global warming, the guerilla-controlled jungles of Colombia on the cocaine trade, corruption in oil-rich Kazakhstan and the destruction of the rainforest in Borneo. He has exposed human rights abuses in the gang-controlled slums of Brazil, Africa and Jamaica and in the thin air of the high Himalaya, among many other places. He is a keen adventurer and writes regularly on the outdoors.

Green has been the recipient of the Amnesty International Media Award for Excellence in Human Rights Journalism, the American Society of Journalists and Authors award for reporting on a significant topic, Environment story of the year at the Foreign Press Association, the North American Travel Journalists Association for Sports in Conjunction with Travel and Feature Writer of the Year in the Press Gazette Magazine and Design Awards. His work has been anthologi

For people with a similar name, see Jonathan Green (disambiguation).

Jonathon Green is an English lexicographer of slang and writer on the history of alternative cultures.

Early life and education

Of Jewish origin, Jonathon Green was educated at Bedford School (–) and Brasenose College, Oxford (–), where he read history.

Career

Green's published books have primarily focussed on sixties counterculture. After publishing All Dressed Up: The Sixties and the Counterculture () he was taken to court for libel by both former Beatle George Harrison and artist Caroline Coon, and the book was withdrawn for 12 months. In June , Coon received damages of £40,, plus £33, costs, from publisher Random House, and received an official apology from Green for making false claims.

The book was later republished with the libellous passages removed.

Authority on slang

The single-volume Chambers Slang Dictionary (Chambers Harrap) was first published in ; a second edition appeared in October

Green's most substantial work in this field is Green's Dictionary of Slang: a three-volume slang work which traces, via examples and citations drawn from the last five centuries, the history of the slang vocabulary from the earliest use of every term. It was awarded the Dartmouth Medal, an annual award from the Reference and User Services Association recognising the most outstanding reference work of the year.

Accolades

Green has been described as the English-speaking world's leading lexicographer of slang, and has even been described as "the most acclaimed British lexicographer since Johnson".

Publications

Author

• Newspeak: A Dictionary of Jargon ()
• The Dictionary of Contemporary Slang (, , )
• The Slang Thesaurus (, )
• The A–Z of Nuclear Jargon ()
• The D