Scott Timberg

Scott Timberg (February 15, 1969 – December 10, 2019) was an American journalist, culture writer, and editor. He was best known as an authority on southern California culture and for his book Culture Crash: The Killing of the Creative Class.[2]

Scott Timberg
Born(1969-02-15)February 15, 1969
Stanford, California, U.S.
DiedDecember 10, 2019(2019-12-10) (aged 50)[1]
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Alma materWesleyan University
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
OccupationJournalist, author, and editor
Spouse(s)Sara Scribner
Children1
Parent(s)Robert Timberg, Jane Timberg

Early life

Scott Robert Timberg was born in Stanford, California, son of journalist and author Robert Timberg and Jane Timberg. He was raised in Maryland. Scott earned a Bachelor of Arts from Wesleyan University in 1991 and a master’s degree in journalism from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He attended a term abroad at the University of Sussex.[3] His grandfather was composer Sammy Timberg.[4]

Career

Scott started his journalism career at The Day in New London, Connecticut. He moved to Los Angeles in 1997 to join the staff of New Times LA. He was a long-time staff writer for the Los Angeles Times until 2008 and a staff writer for salon.[5] As a freelancer he wrote for the Los Angeles Review of Books, The New York Times and Los Angeles Magazine, among others. Timberg spent the longest period of his life in Los Angeles, with a year in Athens, Georgia in 2015.[3]

Books

Notable Articles

Writings about Scott Timberg

Awards

Timberg's book Culture Crash: The Killing of the Creative Class won the National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Award in 2015.[8] The New Yorker called it "a quietly radical rethinking of the very nature of art in modern life".[9]

Personal life and death

Timberg married Sara Scribner, a school librarian and journalist, and they have one son.[3][5]

Timberg was a victim of suicide on December 10, 2019 in Los Angeles, CA.[2]

gollark: (2061 factorial)
gollark: Guess I can put off actually getting access to the relevant email account until 2061!
gollark: Oh, right, I should probably have checked.
gollark: Given that the authentication servers are """"down for maintenance".
gollark: Oh APIOFORMS. I think my Mojang account has finally stopped working.

References
  1. Reynolds, Christopher (December 14, 2019). "Scott Timberg, spirited listener, reader and writer, is dead at 50". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved December 15, 2019.
  2. "Los Angeles Times Scott Timberg obituary".
  3. ""Leaving Los Angeles" Writer Scott Timberg Is Moving after All". Los Angeles Magazine. August 18, 2015. Retrieved December 13, 2019.
  4. "On Stage with the Marx Bros | CultureCrash". www.artsjournal.com. Retrieved 2020-07-26.
  5. "Randall Beach: Our culture suffers when artists, writers go hungry". New Haven Register. 2015-03-23. Retrieved 2020-07-26.
  6. Zoellner, Tom; George, Lynell; Hall, Stanton; Thompson, Richard; McNulty, Charles; Fitch, Janet; Wasserman, Steve; Gioia, Ted; Hermann, y. "Remembering Scott Timberg". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 2020-07-26.
  7. Mall, © Stanford University 450 Serra; Stanford; Complaints, California 94305 723-2300 Terms of Use | Copyright. "Dana Gioia on the late Scott Timberg: a bitter symbol for those who have been marginalized by our "creative culture."". The Book Haven. Retrieved 2020-07-26.
  8. "Past Winners – Los Angeles Press Club". Retrieved 2020-07-26.
  9. Brody, Richard. "The Creative Class and the Movies". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2020-07-26.
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