# Jim Frederick

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'''James Durkin Frederick''' (November 22, 1971 – July 31, 2014) was an American author and journalist who was an editor for ''[Time](/source/Time_(magazine))'' magazine.

==Biography==
James Durkin Frederick was born in [Lake Forest, Illinois](/source/Lake_Forest%2C_Illinois), and graduated from [Columbia University](/source/Columbia_University) in 1993.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Weber|first=Bruce|date=2014-08-07|title=Jim Frederick, Journalist Who Wrote Book About Iraq War Crime, Dies at 42|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/08/business/jim-frederick-foreign-correspondent-who-wrote-book-about-iraq-war-crime-dies-at-42.html|access-date=2020-08-09|issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=Winter 2014|title=Obituaries|url=https://www.college.columbia.edu/cct/archive/winter14/obituaries|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180625140255/https://www.college.columbia.edu/cct/archive/winter14/obituaries|archive-date=June 25, 2018|access-date=August 8, 2020|website=Columbia College Today|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In 2010, he wrote the best-selling book ''Black Hearts: One Platoon's Descent into Madness in Iraq's Triangle of Death'',<ref name=amazon-blackhearts>{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.com/Jim-Frederick/e/B001JSD6SK/ref=dp_byline_cont_pop_book_1 |title=Jim Frederick: Books, Biography, Blog, Audiobooks, Kindle |publisher=Amazon.com |date= |accessdate=2014-08-15}}</ref><ref name=amazon-autor>{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.com/Black-Hearts-Platoons-Descent-Triangle/dp/B008SLEQF8 |title=Black Hearts: One Platoon's Descent into Madness in Iraq's Triangle of Death: Jim Frederick: Amazon.com: Books |website=Amazon |date=2010-02-09 |accessdate=2014-08-15}}</ref> about the [Mahmudiyah killings](/source/Mahmudiyah_killings). He was married to ''Time'' senior editor Charlotte Greensit, whom he met while stationed in London. Frederick left Time in 2013, then settled in San Francisco to start a company, Hybrid Vigor Media.<ref name=nyp-obit>{{cite web |url=https://nypost.com/2014/08/01/ex-time-editor-jim-frederick-dies-at-42/ |title=Ex-Time editor Jim Frederick dies at 42 |date=August 2, 2014 |accessdate=2014-08-02}}</ref>

On July 31, 2014, Frederick died at the age of 42 in the Alta Bates Summit Medical Center in [Oakland, California](/source/Oakland%2C_California), of cardiac arrest and [arrhythmia](/source/Heart_arrhythmia).<ref name=nyp-obit/>

==Works==
*[Jenkins, Charles Robert](/source/Charles_Robert_Jenkins), and Jim Frederick. ''The Reluctant Communist: My Desertion, Court-Martial, and Forty-Year Imprisonment in North Korea''. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008. {{ISBN|9780520253339}}
*Frederick, Jim. ''Black Hearts: One Platoon's Plunge into Madness in the Triangle of Death and the American Struggle in Iraq''. New York: Harmony Books, 2010. {{ISBN|9780307450753}}
** His friend [Ken Kurson](/source/Ken_Kurson) called this book "the single best book ever written about the war in Iraq and one of the greatest war books ever."<ref name=observer-obit>{{cite web |url=http://observer.com/2014/08/remembering-jim-frederick/ |title=Remembering War Correspondent Jim Frederick, 42 |website=[The New York Observer](/source/The_New_York_Observer) |date=August 2014 |accessdate=2014-08-02}}</ref>  The Commandant of Cadets at the [United States Military Academy](/source/United_States_Military_Academy) made it the inaugural book in his personal leadership development book club for cadets and told Frederick that he would be considered a lifetime friend of West Point.<ref name=rfp-war-crime>{{cite web |url=http://ricks.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/12/12/qa_jim_frederick_s_black_hearts_about_a_101st_airborne_war_crime_in_iraq |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120108102445/http://ricks.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/12/12/qa_jim_frederick_s_black_hearts_about_a_101st_airborne_war_crime_in_iraq |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 8, 2012 |title=The Best Defense Q&A: Jim Frederick's 'Black Hearts,' about a 101st Airborne war crime in Iraq |accessdate=2014-08-02 }}</ref>

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