Jeremy Blachman

Jeremy Blachman (born 1979) is an American journalist and the author of Anonymous Lawyer: A Novel.

Blachman graduated from Hunter College High School in 1996. He received his undergraduate degree from Princeton University, is a 2005 graduate of Harvard Law School, and currently lives in New York.

Blachman started the Anonymous Lawyer blog in his second year at Harvard Law School^[1] taking on the satirical persona of a law firm hiring partner".^[2] After revealing his identity to the New York Times^[1] he earned a book deal with Henry Holt to turn the blog into a novel.^[3] Anonymous Lawyer: A Novel was published in hardcover in 2006, and then in paperback by Picador (imprint) in 2007.^[4]

The book was in development for a sitcom adaptation at NBC.^[5]

Anonymous Lawyer has been translated into Korean, Italian, Polish, Thai, Hebrew and Russian.^[6]

Blachman's journalism and writing has appeared in McSweeney's,^[7] FanGraphs,^[8] the Wall Street Journal,^{[9][10][11][12][13][14][15]} The New York Times,^[16] The New Republic,^[17][18] Moment,^[19][20] Lusso,^[21] Kveller,^[22] The Bygone Bureau,^[23][24] Splitsider,^[25] Grin & Tonic,^[26] Thought Catalog,^[27] The Millions,^[28] The Nervous Breakdown,^[29] SparkLife^[30] and LA Weekly.^[31]

• Interview with The New York Inquirer
• Virtually Fiction (article from the Harvard Gazette)