Joe Jackson (born 1955) is an American author of seven nonfiction books, including The Thief at the End of the World: Rubber, Power, and the Seeds of Empire,[2] (a Time magazine Top Ten Books of 2008 selection)[3] and Black Elk: The Life of an American Visionary, which was first published by Macmillan imprint Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2016[4] His book Black Elk received multiple awards and acclaimed reviews,[4][5] including the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography[6] and won the Society of American Historians' Francis Parkman Prize.

[7][8] In 2016, Jackson was named the Mina Hohenberg Darden Professor of Creative Writing at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia.

He was preceded by Philip Roth author Blake Bailey.

[9] Non-fiction books Novels