Jonah Lehrer | |
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 Lehhrer in 2009 | |
| Born | Jonah Richard Lehrer June 25, 1981 Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Occupation |
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| Education | Columbia University, Wolfson College, Oxford |
| Period | 2007–present |
| Genre | Popular science |
| Subject | Behavioural neuroscience |
| Notable works | Proust Was a Neuroscientist (HMH, 2007) How we Decide (HMH, 2009; recalled 2012) Imagine: How Creativity Works (HMH, 2012; recalled 2013) |
| Spouse |
Sarah Liebowitz (m. 2008) |
| Children | 2 |
Jonah Richard Lehrer (born June 25, 1981) is an American author and blogger. Lehrer studied neuroscience at Columbia University and was a Rhodes Scholar. Thereafter, he built a media career that integrated science and humanities content to address broad aspects of human behaviour. Between 2007 and 2012 Lehrer published three non-fiction books that became best-sellers, and also wrote regularly for The New Yorker and Wired.com.
Starting in 2012, Lehrer was discovered to have routinely recycled his earlier work and fabricated or misused quotations and facts, and was alleged to have plagiarized from colleagues. Scrutiny began when freelance journalist Michael Moynihan identified multiple fabrications in Lehrer's third book, Imagine: How Creativity Works (2012), including six quotations attributed to musician Bob Dylan. Imagine and Lehrer's earlier book How We Decide (2009) were recalled after a publisher's internal review found significant problems in that material. He was also fired from The New Yorker and Wired. In 2016, Lehrer published A Book About Love, to negative reviews.