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Sean Elder

Biography

Sean Elder

Sean Elder is a freelance writer and editor based in Brooklyn, New York; Salisbury, CT; and Palo Alto, CA. His writing has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Details, Vogue, Elle, Men's Journal, National Geographic, Premiere, Gourmet, Food & Wine, Redbook, Glamour and numerous other publications. I was also an editor at a few of those places and still work on print magazines and digital publications. I wrote a media column for Salon and before that reviewed web sites for the New Yorker ("Only Connect"). He has taught writing at Eugene Lang College, part of Manhattan's New School University, and he is now working on another non-fiction book with Amos Kamil, GREAT IS THE TRUTH: The Horace Mann Sex Scandal and the Secret Life of America's Perfect Schools.

Sean Elder

Books by Sean Elder

Great Is the Truth: Secrecy, Scandal, and the Quest for Justice at the Horace Mann School
by Amos Kamil and Sean Elder - Education, Nonfiction, True Crime

A shocking exposé of sexual abuse and the struggle for justice at one of America's most prestigious schools. In GREAT IS THE TRUTH, Kamil and his coauthor, Sean Elder, tell the riveting story of how one of the country's leading schools was beset by scandal. In gripping detail, Kamil and Elder relate what happened as survivors of abuse came forward and sought redress. We see the school and its influential backers circle the wagons. We meet Horace Mann alumni who work to change New York State's sexual abuse laws. We follow a celebrity lawyer's contentious efforts to achieve a settlement. And we encounter a former teacher who candidly recalls his inappropriate relationships with students. "Great is the truth and it prevails" may be the motto of Horace Mann, but for many alumni the truth remains all too hard to come by.