Will Storr Explained

Will Storr is a British author, journalist and former photographer.[1] [2] He has been a contributing editor at Esquire and GQ Australia.[3] [4] He also works as a ghostwriter and public speaker.[5]

Career

Storr has written six books under his own name.

His first book, Will Storr versus The Supernatural, was an investigation into people who believe in ghosts. It included a behind-the-scenes exposé of the British television show Most Haunted and an interview with Gabriele Amorth, the Vatican’s chief exorcist. Storr also tracked down Janet Hodgson, who claimed to be the focus of the Enfield Poltergeist haunting in 1977.[6] [7]

The Heretics: Adventures with the Enemies of Science (published in the U.S. and Canada as "The Unpersuadables") was an investigation into irrational belief. Storr met creationists in Australia, the climate change denial Lord Christopher Monckton and went undercover on a trip to former World War II sites with a group of holocaust deniers and the revisionist historian David Irving.[8] [9]

Storr’s novel The Hunger and the Howling of Killian Lone was an adult fairy tale set in a Michelin starred kitchen in 1980s London.[10] [11]

Selfie: How We Became So Self-obsessed and What It's Doing to Us was a history of the Western self. In the book, Storr discusses the rise of social media and its effects, attributing many of the more harmful ones to increased pressure on individuals and what he calls "perfectionistic styles of thinking".[12] [13] In 2018 The New Yorker made a short film based on the book.[14] The Science of Storytelling, was a Sunday Times Bestseller.[15]

The Status Game describes Storr’s theory about the hidden structure of social life, focusing on the need for social status and its effects on individual human life and society.[16]

Storr also works as a ghostwriter. He wrote Ant Middleton’s memoir First Man In that was shortlisted in the 2019 British Book Awards.[17]

Journalism

He has covered the South Sudanese Civil War, illegal street racing in the United Kingdom, male suicides, the Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda, the abuse of sugar crop workers in El Salvador, and the race-hate killing of an Aboriginal man in Australia.[18] [19] [20] [21] [22] He has written for media outlets including The Guardian, The Observer, The New York Times, The New Yorker, and The Times.[23] [24] [25]

He received a One World Media award,[26] an Amnesty International award for his work regarding sexual violence against men,[27] and an AIB award for Best Investigative Documentary in 2013 for An Unspeakable Act, a BBC World Service documentary covering human rights abuses in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.[28] [29]

During his reporting in South Sudan Storr was abducted by a militia and narrowly avoided being executed.[30]

He has also been a guest on podcasts including Under The Skin with Russell Brand, The Jordan Harbinger Show, The Ezra Klein Show and The Joe Rogan Experience.[31] [32] [33] [34]

Photography

His portraits of survivors of the Lord's Resistance Army, a heterodox Christian rebel group, have been exhibited at Oxo Tower.[35] [36]

Personal life

He is married to Farrah Storr.[37] His great-great uncle is the journalist, government reformer and author of the Self-Help, Samuel Smiles.

Selected bibliography

Notes and References

  1. Web site: How We Got to Be So Self-Absorbed: The Long Story . Gottlieb . Anthony . 21 June 2018 . . 17 October 2021 .
  2. Web site: The status games we all play . Illing . Sean . 5 October 2021 . Vox . . 17 October 2021 .
  3. Web site: The Reading List - The Heretics . 26 February 2013 . esquire.com/ . . 17 October 2021 . Esquire contributing editor Will Storr.
  4. Web site: Will Storr On Millennials And The Pressure To Be Narcissistic . Storr . Will . 29 August 2017 . gq.com.au/ . . 17 October 2021 . GQ contributor and British author, Storr.
  5. Web site: Ant Middleton: 'The adrenaline has you so wired it's as if you're in The Matrix' . Heaf . Jonathan . 22 October 2018 . gq-magazine.co.uk/ . . 26 November 2021 . a career that he recounts in vivid prose (via journalist Will Storr).
  6. Web site: Will Storr Vs. the Supernatural: One Man's Search for the Truth about Ghosts . publishersweekly.com/ . . 26 November 2021 .
  7. Web site: "Will Storr vs. the Supernatural," by Will Storr . 22 December 2006 . seattletimes.com/ . . 27 November 2021 .
  8. Web site: From creationism to ESP: Why believers ignore science . Miller . Laura . 16 March 2014 . salon.com/ . . 26 November 2021 .
  9. Web site: The Heretics: Adventures with the Enemies of Science, By Will Storr . Tudge . Colin . 15 February 2013 . independent.co.uk/ . . 26 November 2021 .
  10. Web site: The Hunger and the Howling of Killian Lone . publishersweekly.com/ . . 26 November 2021 .
  11. Web site: The Science of Storytelling by Will Storr review – the lure of novel ideas . Preston . Alex . 16 April 2019 . . 26 November 2021 .
  12. Web site: Books: Selfie — How We Became So Self-Obsessed and What It's Doing to Us by Will Storr . Godwin . Richard . 4 June 2017 . thetimes.co.uk/ . . 26 November 2021 .
  13. Web site: Selfie by Will Storr — me, myself and I . 16 June 2017 . ft.com/ . . 26 November 2021 .
  14. Erin Brethauer, Tim Hussin . Selfie, Millennials, and Narcissism . . 30 April 2018 .
  15. Web site: The Science of Storytelling: Why Stories Make Us Human, and How to Tell Them Better . harpercollins.com.au/ . . 26 November 2021 .
  16. Web site: The Status Game by Will Storr review — how the fight for status defines our world . Marriott . James . 19 August 2021 . thetimes.co.uk/ . . 26 November 2021 .
  17. Web site: The British Book Awards: 2019 Books of the Year Shortlists . Anderson . Porter . 22 March 2019 . publishingperspectives.com/ . Publishing Perspectives . 26 November 2021 .
  18. Web site: South Sudan the place where dreams turned to dust . Storr . Will . 12 December 2014 . theaustralian.com.au . . 18 October 2021 .
  19. Web site: Will Storr . penguin.co.uk/ . . 15 October 2021 .
  20. Web site: Tragedy in Uganda: Joseph Kony massacre survivors tell their stories . Storr . Will . 12 January 2014 . . 26 November 2021 .
  21. Web site: What is killing sugar-cane workers across Central America? . Storr . Will . 14 October 2012 . . 26 November 2021 .
  22. Web site: Australia's dark heart . Storr . Will . 3 October 2010 . . 26 November 2021 .
  23. Web site: Will Storr . simonandschuster.com/ . . 15 October 2021 .
  24. Web site: The Metamorphosis of the Western Soul . Storr . Will . 24 August 2018 . . 17 October 2021.
  25. A Better Kind of Happiness . Storr . Will . 7 July 2016 . . 17 October 2021 .
  26. Web site: Channel 4 scoops three gongs at One World Media Awards . McAthy . Rachel . 9 May 2012 . journalism.co.uk/ . . 26 November 2021 .
  27. Web site: Will Storr . panmacmillan.com/ . . 17 October 2021 . he was presented with the One World Press award and the Amnesty International award for his work on sexual violence against men,.
  28. Web site: AIBs – 2013 Winners and Highly Commended Announced . 6 November 2013 . theaibs.tv . . 18 October 2021 .
  29. Will Storr . An Unspeakable Act . . Democratic Republic of the Congo . 28 July 2012 .
  30. Storr, Will (2017). Selfie: How the West Became Self-Obsessed. Pan Macmillan. ISBN 1447283678
    1. 020 Selfie-Obsession: Can Narcissism Ever Make Us Happy? (with Will Storr)
    . Under the Skin with Russell Brand. Russell Brand. 26 November 2021.
  32. Will Storr - Understanding Social Position and the Status Game . The Jordan Harbinger Show . . 26 November 2021.
  33. Will Storr on why you are not yourself . . . 26 November 2021.
  34. Web site: Spotify . 2024-02-19 . open.spotify.com.
  35. Web site: Life After the Lord's Resistance Army . Pomfret . Emma . 12 May 2014 . . 17 October 2021 .
  36. Web site: Will Storr . janklowandnesbit.co.uk/ . Janklow & Nesbit . 17 October 2021 .
  37. Web site: Relative Values: Cosmopolitan editor Farrah Storr and her author husband Will on falling in love with your best friend . Austin . Ellie . 17 March 2019 . . 26 November 2021 .

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