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Jack El-Hai is an Americanjournalist andauthor who focuses most of his work on the history of medicine, the history of science, and other historical topics.
El-Hai graduated fromCarleton College in 1979. He was the president of theAmerican Society of Journalists and Authors. He has been a contributor to theAtlantic Monthly, theWashington Post Magazine,American Heritage, and other publications. El-Hai has also taught courses on nonfiction writing at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication and the Creative Writing Program of theUniversity of Minnesota, the Split Rock Arts Program, the Mayo Clinic, and the Loft Literary Center. He has recently started teaching creative writing courses atAugsburg College.[1]
He is the author of a biography of Dr.Walter Freeman,The Lobotomist: A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness (2005, Wiley),The Nazi and the Psychiatrist (2013), andTurbulent Air: A History of Northwest Airlines (2013).[2] His shorter works have appeared inThe Atlantic,Wired,Scientific American Mind,The History Channel Magazine, and many other publications.[1]
Based on El-Hai’sThe Nazi and the Psychiatrist,Nuremberg (2025) is part of a tradition of other films and television productions about the Nuremberg trials of Nazi leaders in 1945, most notablyStanley Kramer’sOscar-winning classicJudgment at Nuremberg (1961). Film directorJames Vanderbilt acknowledged that he "found his angle” for his rendition of the historical event in El-Hai’s account of the interaction between American psychiatristDouglas Kelley and Hermann Göring. Kelley was "the young army psychiatrist tasked with determining the mental competence of the accused Germans slated to stand trial at Nuremberg”; Göring was the most senior Nazi put on trial in Nuremberg.[3]
In 2002, he was the winner of an outstanding medical article as recognized by the June Roth Memorial Fund.[4]
El-Hai lives inMinneapolis with his wife and two daughters.
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