In a cover story, Time magazine featured Going Solo as 'the number one idea that is changing our lives.' Going Solo has been translated into several languages, including Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Turkish, and Hungarian, and has generated widespread debate. His third book, Going Solo: The Extraordinary Rise and Surprising Appeal of Living Alone, was published in February 2012 by Penguin Press. His second book, Fighting for Air: The Battle to Control America’s Media, was called 'politically passionate and intellectually serious,', 'a must-read for those who wonder what happened to good radio, accurate reporting and autonomous public interest'. A theatrical adaptation of the book premiered in Chicago in 2008. The book won several scholarly prizes, including the American Sociological Association Robert Park Book Award, the Urban Affairs Association best book award, the British Sociological Association book prize, the Mirra Komarovsky Book Prize, and honorable mention for the C Wright Mills Award, and was a Favorite Book selection by the Chicago Tribune. The book is an account and analysis of the 1995 Chicago heat wave. Klinenberg's first book, Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago, was published by the University of Chicago Press in 2002. In 2013, he was appointed research director of the Rebuild by Design competition. In 2012, Klinenberg became the director of the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University. He is currently Professor of Sociology, Public Policy, and Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University, as well as the editor of the journal Public Culture. Parker School and later earned a bachelor of arts degree from Brown University (1993), followed by a master's degree (1997) and PhD (2000) from the University of California, Berkeley.

Klinenberg was born in Chicago to a family of Czech-Jewish origin. Klinenberg is best known for his contributions as a public sociologist. He is currently Helen Gould Shepard Professor in Social Science and Director of the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University. Klinenberg (born November 14, 1970) is an American sociologist and a scholar of urban studies, culture, and media.

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