Schell is the author of The Fate of the Earth, a very influential and important bestselling book first published in 1982. In The Unconquered World, he argues that non-violence is as powerful a force for political change as violent action. It is powerful and eloquent, as well as extremely topical.
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The author of several works, including THE TIME OF ILLUSION, THE FATE OF THE EARTH, and THE VILLAGE OF BEN SUC, Jonathan Schell has been a contributor to The Nation, The New Yorker, Harper's, The Atlantic, and Foreign Affairs, and has taught at Wesleyan, Princeton, and Emory, among other universities. He currently lives in New York, where he is the Harold Willens Peace Fellow at the Nation Institute.
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