![]() ![]() Females have lower lifetime earnings than males and, as a result, get less in Social Security. This is after she found, and was impressed by, the amount of older, single women that made it out on the road. With the book, she saw the opportunity to do something different from typical “road books” that are told from a male perspective, and put women’s perspectives front and center. The project spanned the course of three years and over fifteen thousand miles of driving, from one coast to the other and from Mexico up to the Canadian border. She says they prefer to call themselves “houseless”. ![]() She has gotten support for her work from fellowships at the Logan Nonfiction Program, Yaddo, the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center, and MacDowell.įor her book “Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century” she spent months living in her camper van, documenting itinerant Americans that gave up traditional housing, hit the road full time, and enabled them to travel from different jobs to make a place for themselves in America’s precarious economy. She graduated from Amherst College in the year 2000 with a BA in English and French and got her master’s in journalism from Columbia University in the year 2005. Jessica Bruder, a journalist and New American fellow, writes about resilience, social issues, and different subcultures. ![]()
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