Jane Kramer (* August 7, 1938 in Providence, Rhode Island) is an American journalist who is the European correspondent for The New Yorker; she has written a regular "Letter from Europe" for twenty years. Kramer has also written nine books, the latest of which, Lone Patriot (2003), is about a militia in the American West. Her other books include The Last Cowboy, Europeans and The Politics of Memory.
Kramer was born in Providence, Rhode Island. She has a B.A. in English from Vassar College and an M.A. in English from Columbia University.
Kramer has won an Emmy Award for documentary filmmaking. Some of her other awards include the American Book Award, National Magazine Award, Front Page Award, and the Prix européen de l'essai Charles Veillon.
Kramer is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a founding director of the Committee to Protect Journalists. She has taught at Princeton University, Sarah Lawrence, CUNY, and the University of California, Berkeley.
Since 2006, Kramer has been a Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur.
Lone Patriot: The Short Career of an American Militiaman, Random House, 2002
The Politics of Memory: Looking for Germany in the New Germany, Random House, 1996
Unter Deutschen, Edition Tiamat (Berlin), 1996
Whose Art Is It, Duke University Press, 1994
Sonderbare Europäer, Die Andere Bibliothek/Eichborn (Frankfurt), 1993
Eine Amerikanerin in Berlin, Edition Tiamat (Berlin), 1993
Europeans, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1988
Unsettling Europe, Random House, 1980
The Last Cowboy, Harper & Row, 1977
Honor to the Bride Like the Pigeon That Guards Its Grain Under the Clove Tree, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1970
Allen Ginsberg in America, Random House, 1969
Off Washington Square: A Reporter Looks at Greenwich Village, N.Y., Duell, Sloan & Pierce, 1963
Articles
"Profiles: The Hungry Travellers," The New Yorker, November 24, 2008
"Our Local Correspondents: The Petition," The New Yorker, April 14, 2008
"Onward and Upward with the Arts: Experimental Journey," The New Yorker, October 8, 2007
"Letter From Europe: Spice Routes," The New Yorker, September 3 & 10, 2007
"Letter From Europe: Round One, The Battle For France," The New Yorker, April 23, 2007
"Letter From Europe: The Pope and Islam," The New Yorker, April 2, 2007
"Letter from Europe: Jamai Aboubakr," The New Yorker, October 16, 2006
"Letter From Europe: The Dutch Model," The New Yorker, April 3, 2006
"Comment: Images," The New Yorker, February 27, 2006
"Comment: Difference," The New Yorker, November 21, 2005
"Letter From Europe: The Rise of Angela Merkel," The New Yorker, September 12, 2005
"A Critic At Large: The Quest," The New Yorker, September 5, 2005
"Letter From Europe: Painting the Town," The New Yorker, June 27, 2005
"Comment: Holy Orders," The New Yorker, May 2, 2005
"Letter from Europe: Blood Sport...How foxhunting became the most divisive issue in England", The New Yorker, January 24 & 31, 2005
"Letter From Europe: Taking the Veil", The New Yorker, November 22, 2004
"Letter from Europe: All He Surveys...Silvio Berlusconi’s monopoly on Italy", The New Yorker, November 10, 2003
"Comment: This World", The New Yorker, November 2, 2003
"Department of Remembering: Two From Berlin", The New Yorker, October 27, 2003
"The Boards: Doing Yogi", The New Yorker, September 15, 2003
"Letter from Europe: Opera Wars...How German should German music be?", The New Yorker, August 20 & 27, 2003
"Personal History: The Reporter’s Kitchen...A recipe for writing", The New Yorker, August 19 & 26, 2003
"Letter from Europe: Refugee...An Afghan woman who fled tyranny on her own", The New Yorker, January 20, 2003
"Comment: Resentments", The New Yorker, October 7, 2002
"A Reporter At Large: The Patriot", The New Yorker, May 6, 2002
"Letter from Europe: Private Lives...Germany’s troubled war on terrorism", The New Yorker, February 11, 2002
"Talk of the Town: Embracing the Euro", The New Yorker, January 21, 2002
"Letter from Europe: The Carpentras Affair", The New Yorker, November 6, 2000
"Portfolio by Saul Steinberg: Mission to China...The artist’s wartime adventures", The New Yorker, July 10, 2000
"Letter from Europe: Liberty, Equality, Sorority...French women demand their share", The New Yorker, May 29, 2000
"Essays on Heiner Müller", Grand Street, Fall 1999
"Letter from Europe: Living with Berlin...How do you rebuild a city that wants to settle its account with the past, but can’t decide what its future should be?", The New Yorker, July 5, 1999
"Books: review of “Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris” by Ian Kershaw", The New Yorker, March 8, 1999
"Letter from Europe: The Shock of the Old...An Umbrian town rebuilding after an earthquake weighs its past against its future", The New Yorker, February 8, 1999
"Letter from Europe: The Once and Future Chancellor", The New Yorker, September 14, 1998
"Interview with Brenda Milner", Grand Street, Fall 1997
"Annals of Accountability: Manna from Hell...Nazi gold, Holocaust accounts, and what the Swiss must finally confront", The New Yorker, April 28 & March 5, 1997
"Personal History: The Invisible Woman", The New Yorker, February 26 & March 4, 1996
"Comment: Francois Premier...The first ‘Mitterandist’ and the last", The New Yorker, January 22, 1996
"Interview with Kip Thorne", Grand Street, Fall 1995
"Letter from Europe: The Politics of Memory", The New Yorker, August 14, 1995
"A Reporter At Large: The Life of the Party", The New Yorker, February 6, 1995
"Letter From Paris: The Impresario's Last Act", The New Yorker, November 21, 1994
"Comment: Vox Populist", The New Yorker, April 18, 1994,
"Letter from Europe: Dirty Hands", The New Yorker, March 28, 1994
"Letter from Europe: Bad Blood", The New Yorker, October 11, 1993
"Letter from Europe: Neo-Nazis...A chaos in the head", The New Yorker, June 14, 1993
"In the South Bronx: Whose Art is it?", The New Yorker, December 21, 1992
"Letter from Europe: Milan", The New Yorker, September 21, 1992
"Letter From Europe", The New Yorker, September 14, 1992
"Letter from Europe: Berlin", The New Yorker, May 25, 1992
"Letter from Berlin", The New Yorker, November 25, 1991
"The Chanel Obsession", Vogue, September 1991
"Letter from Europe",The New Yorker, July 29, 1991
"Letter From Europe", The New Yorker, March 18, 1991
"Letter from Europe: London", The New Yorker, January 14, 1991
"Letter from Germany", The New Yorker, June 18, 1990
"Letter from Europe", The New Yorker, March 12, 1990
"Letter From Europe", The New Yorker, January 1, 1990
"The Private Mary McCarthy: Unfinished with Life", International Herald Tribune, October 31, 1989
"Climbing Mount Manhattan", House & Garden, October 1989
"Gardens", House & Garden, September 1989
"Prisoners of Taste", House & Garden, July 1989
"Letter from Europe", The New Yorker, May 1, 1989
"Letter from Europe: Paris", The New Yorker, January 30, 1989
"Au Revoir Les Enfants", Vogue, January 1989
"Letter from Europe: West Berlin", The New Yorker, November 28, 1988
"The Eighth Gothic Tale", New York Review of Books, July 17, 1988
"Letter from Europe", The New Yorker, May 30, 1988
"Letter from Europe: Paris", The New Yorker, April 25, 1988
"Le Grand Restaurant" (with Vincent Crapanzano, writing as John Bryce), House & Garden, March 1988
"Letter from Europe: Paris", The New Yorker, February 22, 1988
"Letter from Europe: Lisbon", The New Yorker, November 30, 1987
"Letter from Europe: Paris", The New Yorker, October 12, 1987
"Rules of the Game", House & Garden, October 1987
"Letter from Europe: Paris", The New Yorker, August 24, 1987
"Letter from Europe: Milan", The New Yorker, June 8, 1987
"Letter from the Elysian Fields", The New Yorker, March 2, 1987
"The French Christmas", House & Garden, December 1986
"Letter from Europe: Vienna", The New Yorker, June 30, 1986
"Letter from Europe: Paris", The New Yorker, May 19, 1986
"Letter from Europe: Paris", The New Yorker, April 14, 1986
"Letter from Europe: Dreux", The New Yorker, February 17, 1986
"The House at King’s Pool", House & Garden, February 1986
"Letter from Europe: Paris", The New Yorker, October 21, 1985
"Letter from Europe: Paris", The New Yorker, August 5, 1985
"Letter from Europe: Paris", The New Yorker, June 24, 1985
"Letter from Europe: Paris", The New Yorker, May 20, 1985
"Letter from Europe: London", The New Yorker, April 5, 1985
"Letter from Europe: Paris", The New Yorker, January 21, 1985
"Letter from Europe: Hamburg", The New Yorker, November 26, 1984
"Letter from Europe: La stupidité de l’homme d’argent, quoique devenue quasi proverbiale, n’est cependant que relative", The New Yorker, August 6, 1984
"Letter from Europe: Paris", The New Yorker, May 14, 1984
"Milan Kundera", New York Times Book Review, April 29, 1984
"Review of The Return of Eva Peron by V.S. Naipaul", New York Times Book Review, April 13, 1984
"Letter from Europe: Paris", The New Yorker, March 26, 1984
"Letter from West Germany", The New Yorker, December 19, 1983
"Letter from Europe: Paris", The New Yorker, October 31, 1983
"The Roots of French Cooking", House & Garden, October 1983
"Letter from Europe: Paris", The New Yorker, September 5, 1983
"Letter from Europe: Paris", The New Yorker, June 27, 1983
"Letter from Europe: Paris", The New Yorker, May 16, 1983
"Letter from Europe: Paris", The New Yorker, April 4, 1983
"Letter from Europe: Paris", The New Yorker, February 28, 1983
"Letter from Europe: Paris", The New Yorker, January 24, 1983
"Letter from Europe: Paris", The New Yorker, December 20, 1982
"In the Garrison", New York Review of Books, December 2, 1982
"Fall of a House", New York Review of Books, December 2, 1982
"Letter from Europe: Paris", The New Yorker, November 15, 1982
"Letter from Europe", The New Yorker, September 13, 1982
"Letter from Europe: Paris", The New Yorker, August 2, 1982
"Letter from Europe: Paris", The New Yorker, June 28, 1982
"Letter from Europe: Paris", The New Yorker, May 24, 1982
"Letter from Europe: Paris", The New Yorker, April 5, 1982
"Letter from Europe: Paris", The New Yorker, March 1, 1982
"Letter from Europe: Paris", The New Yorker, January 18, 1982
"Letter from Europe", The New Yorker, December 21, 1981
"A Reporter in Europe: West Berlin", The New Yorker, December 7, 1981
"Letter from Europe: Paris", The New Yorker, November 9, 1981
"A Reporter in Europe: London", The New Yorker, May 11, 1981
"A Reporter in Europe: Zurich", The New Yorker, December 15, 1980
"Profiles: The San Vincenzo Cell",The New Yorker, September 24, 1979
"Moynihan’s Grief", New York Review of Books, May 3, 1979
"A Reporter in Europe: Paris", The New Yorker, June 19, 1978
"A Reporter in Europe: Hamburg", The New Yorker, March 20, 1978
"Review of The Franco Years by Jose Yglesias", New York Times Book Review, October 30, 1977
"A Reporter in Europe: Paris", The New Yorker, July 4, 1977
"Profiles: Cowboy (II)", The New Yorker, June 6, 1977
"Profiles: Cowboy (I)", The New Yorker, May 30, 1977
"A Reporter in Europe: Rome", The New Yorker, May 2, 1977
"A Reporter in Europe: Madrid", The New Yorker, March 21, 1977
"Review of The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston", New York Times Book Review, November 7, 1976
"Review of Women of the Shadows by Anne Cornelisen", New York Times Book Review, April 4, 1976
"Profiles: The Invandrare", The New Yorker, March 22, 1976
"A Reporter At Large: The Portuguese Revolution", The New Yorker, December 15, 1975
"Review of The Gentle Tasaday by John Nance", New York Times Book Review, June 1, 1975
"Review of The Three Marias by Maria Isabel Barreno, Maria Teresa Horta, and Maria Velho da Costa", New York Times Book Review, February 2, 1975
"Letter from Lisbon", The New Yorker, September 23, 1974
"Letter from Guyana", The New Yorker, September 16, 1974
"Profiles: The Ugandan Asians", The New Yorker, April 8, 1974
"Profiles: The Pieds Noirs", The New Yorker, November 25, 1972
"Department of Amplification: Ireland", The New Yorker, April 15, 1972
"Letter from Ireland", The New Yorker, February 19, 1972
"Profiles: Founding Cadre", The New Yorker, November 28, 1970
"A Reporter At Large: Honor to the Bride (III)", The New Yorker, September 12, 1970
"A Reporter At Large: Honor to the Bride (II)", The New Yorker, September 5, 1970
"A Reporter At Large: Honor to the Bride (I)", The New Yorker, August 29, 1970
"Letter from Dublin", The New Yorker, July 25, 1970
"A World of Saints and She-Demons" (with Vincent Crapanzano), New York Times Magazine, June 22, 1969
"Profiles: Pater Familias (II)", The New Yorker, August 24, 1968
"Profiles: Pater Familias (I)", The New Yorker, August 17, 1968
"Profiles: Man Who is Happening Now", The New Yorker, November 26, 1966
"A Reporter At Large: The Skin Game", The New Yorker, April 2, 1966
Farming in the Périgord region, France. Attachment to the land.
Profiles cooks and food writers Jeffrey Alford and Naomi Duguid.
