J. Oliver Conroy is a journalist who specializes in reported features, profiles, and essays. He writes about ideologues, extremist movements, intellectuals, the culture wars, true crime, strange events, strange places, and strange people.
He formerly worked as a commissioning features editor at The Guardian US, assigning and editing major reported features and essays from writers across the country.
He studied political science, modern history, and English literature at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, and also spent time as a visiting student at the Paris Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po). He earned a master's in journalism from New York University.
Prior to pursuing journalism and writing full-time he spent several years working in the public relations industry, where he represented clients in the technology, finance, and media sectors. Before securing a tenuous foothold in bourgeois respectability, he also worked as a night watchman, janitor, telemarketer, drugstore cashier, fry cook, bar-back, golf caddy, and as a paid test subject of psychological experiments. The researchers were just as baffled as he is.
In his scant spare time he enjoys reading, film, travel, and the outdoors.
He formerly worked as a commissioning features editor at The Guardian US, assigning and editing major reported features and essays from writers across the country.
He studied political science, modern history, and English literature at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, and also spent time as a visiting student at the Paris Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po). He earned a master's in journalism from New York University.
Prior to pursuing journalism and writing full-time he spent several years working in the public relations industry, where he represented clients in the technology, finance, and media sectors. Before securing a tenuous foothold in bourgeois respectability, he also worked as a night watchman, janitor, telemarketer, drugstore cashier, fry cook, bar-back, golf caddy, and as a paid test subject of psychological experiments. The researchers were just as baffled as he is.
In his scant spare time he enjoys reading, film, travel, and the outdoors.
