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Alexander "Alex" Shoumatoff (born November 4, 1946) is an American writer known for his literary journalism, nature and environmental writing, and books and magazine pieces about political and environmental situations and world affairs. He was a staff writer at ''The New Yorker'' magazine from 1978 to 1987, a founding contributing editor of ''Outside'' magazine and ''Condé Nast Traveler'', and is currently the senior-most contributing editor to ''Vanity Fair'' where he has been since 1986. He is known for reporting on some of the most remote corners of the world. Career highlights include an article for ''Vanity Fair'' magazine about the mountain gorilla advocate Dian Fossey in 1986 in Rwanda which became the film ''Gorillas in the Mist''; one of the first international articles about the Brazilian musician Caetano Veloso in 1984 for ''The New Yorker''; tracing the origin of AIDS for Vanity Fair which became the book ''African Madness''; an early 2007 profile of the organization Product Red led by U2 front man Bono;〔http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2007/07/lazarus200707〕 and his arrest in 2008 for trespassing at the Bohemian Grove in Monte Rio, California in 2008 that was featured in ''The New York Post'' and ''Vanity Fair''〔http://www.vanityfair.com/style/features/2009/05/bohemian-grove200905〕 about how members of the Grove were attempting to log old-growth redwood trees, but became much more than that after news of his arrest was picked up by news outlets.〔 He has 10 published books and since 2001 has been the editor of a web site, (Dispatches From The Vanishing World ) devoted to "documenting and raising awareness about the planet's rapidly disappearing natural and cultural diversity".〔http://blog.dispatchesfromthevanishingworld.com/〕 Hundreds of pages of his writing are posted on the site.〔http://www.dispatchesfromthevanishingworld.com/〕 Shoumatoff has been called "the greatest writer in America" by Donald Trump〔(News article in ''The Scotsman'' ), 3 April 2008.〕 and has been called "one of our greatest story tellers" by Graydon Carter. ==Ethnicity and ancestry== Shoumatoff descends from a family of the Russian nobility he traced back dozens of generations in his 1982 book, ''Russian Blood''.〔http://www.dispatchesfromthevanishingworld.com/pastdispatches/oldrussia/russia1.html〕 His paternal grandmother, Elizabeth Shoumatoff, was a prominent portrait artist who was painting President Franklin Roosevelt when he collapsed before her with a cerebral hemorrhage and she escorted his mistress Lucy Rutherford away from the scene before the media arrived. Her brother/Shoumatoff's great uncle Andrey Avinoff, was a "gentleman-in-waiting" to the Tsar at the time of the Soviet Revolution, was an artist also, and was a renowned lepidopterist who became the director of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh from 1925 to 1945. His paternal grandfather, Leo Shoumatoff, was the business manager of Igor Sikorsky's aircraft company, which developed the helicopter and the first passenger airplane. His other grandfather was a Colonel in the Empress's cavalry guard. His father Nicholas Shoumatoff was an engineer who designed paper mills around the world, an entomologist, and well-known alpine ecologist〔http://www.nytimes.com/1999/09/26/nyregion/nicholas-shoumatoff-81-nature-enthusiast.html〕 who wrote the books ''Europe's Mountain Center'' and ''Around the Roof of the World''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alex Shoumatoff」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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