John Jeremiah Sullivan

John Jeremiah Sullivan (born 1974) is an American writer, musician, teacher, and editor.

In 2014, he edited The Best American Essays, a collection in which his work has been featured in previous years.

Sullivan's essay "Mister Lytle: An Essay," originally published in The Paris Review, won a number of awards, including a National Magazine Award, and was anthologized in Pulphead.

His original music appears on the self-titled album Life of Saturdays.

In 2017, he helped lead a small group of 8th-grade students on a scavenger hunt to resurrect lost copies of The Daily Record, the African–American newspaper at the center of a white supremacist coup d'état and massacre that occurred in his adopted home town of Wilmington, NC, in 1898.