Draft:Adin Dobkin

• Comment: Assessing in relation to WP:AUTHOR - Dobkin does not appear to be "regarded as an important figure or widely cited by peers or successors"; has not "originated a significant new concept, theory, or technique"; and has not "created or played a major role in co-creating a significant or well-known work or collective body of work". His first (so far, only) book did receive some positive reviews, but arguably not "significant". The list of external links may contain significant coverage but some appear to be interviews (and so may not be reliable sources per WP:IV). Paul W (talk) 13:46, 13 June 2024 (UTC)

• Comment: Exact same comment as from Theroadislong- Wikipedia cannot be used as a citation. This person also still doesn't meet significant coverage. GraziePrego (talk) 03:17, 2 November 2023 (UTC)

• Comment: Wikipedia cannot be used as a source. Theroadislong (talk) 19:50, 16 August 2023 (UTC)

• Comment: More sources are needed. Please read WP:SIGCOV, edit accordingly, and resubmit. 〜 Festucalex • talk 18:22, 17 July 2023 (UTC)

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Adin Dobkin (born 1993) is an American writer, journalist, activist, and teacher at CUNY City Tech. He is the author of Sprinting Through No Man's Land: Endurance, Tragedy, and Rebirth in the 1919 Tour de France, one of six books listed as Coups de Coeur in the American Library in Paris Book Award in 2022.. His second book, These Bones Can Speak: A Border Fable for the Progressive era, is to be released in February 2027.

Early life and education

Dobkin was born in Santa Barbara, California, the first son of Jeffrey Dobkin and Julie Thompson-Dobkin, both medical doctors. He grew up in Newport Beach, California, and attended Newport Harbor High School, graduating in 2012. He received a BS in Economics from American University in 2012, and then settled in Washington, D.C. for several years where he began writing for a variety of news outlets. In 2017 and 2018, he was President of the Military Writers Guild, an international network of service members, veterans, and civilian analysts, dedicated towards the field of arms and the written word. He received his Master of Fine Arts in creative non-fiction from Columbia University in New York, graduating in 2020.

Writing career

Dobkin's work has appeared in The Paris Review, The Atlantic, The New York Times Magazine, and Los Angeles Review of Books, among others.

Dobkin's first book, Sprinting Through No Man's Land: Endurance, Tragedy, and Rebirth in the 1919 Tour de France, was published in 2021 and was named an Amazon Book of the Month for History. It focused on the 1919 Tour de France, which began within days of the signing of the Treaty of Versailles. Set in the aftermath of World War I, Dobkin details the unique challenges of that particular Tour, as France was emerging from conflict. William Fotheringham in The Wall Street Journal described the book as "an epic tale, a timely reminder of the Tour's umbilical connection with the communities through which it passes". Publishers Weekly called it "a novelistic blow-by-blow account of the first Tour de France run after WWI, shining light on the wartime experiences of its racers, organizers, and observers". The Christian Science Monitor named it one of the top sport books of summer in 2021. The book was named among six Coups de Coeur prior to the American Library in Paris Book Award in 2022.

Dobkin's second book, to be released in February 2027 is titled These Bones Can Speak: A Border Fable for the Progressive era (Little A Publishing). This details the story of the Texas legislator Jose Canales, and his attempts to investigate the conduct of the Texas Ranger Division following a massacre of Mexican Americans in 1919. Aziz Rana, comments, “These Bones Can Speak is a remarkable achievement. Dobkin effortlessly weaves together the individual biography of J. T. Canales, a sweeping history of the US-Mexico border across centuries, and an essential telling of the Texas Rangers’ lawlessness and violence. Beautifully told and deeply humane, the book is a gripping reminder of how cycles of state violence have shaped the lives of the border’s most vulnerable, and the consequences of failing to account for past injustice. A moral challenge to all concerned Americans, this is essential reading.”

Dobkin also co-hosts War Stories, a podcast that focuses on stories at the heart of conflict. He is co-editor of The Amenia Free Review, a a literary review, which focuses on cultivating a socialist avant-garde in America.

Personal life

Dobkin lives in Brooklyn, New York and is married to Hannah Freeman. They have two cats, Juniper and George.

External links

• https://www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/index.php/bookreview/sprinting-through-no-mans-land-endurance-tragedy-and-rebirth-in-the-1919-tour-de-france

• https://booktrib.com/2021/07/06/race-over-pillaged-ground-in-adin-dobkins-depiction-of-the-tour-de-france-after-the-great-war/
• https://www.wrath-bearingtree.com/2021/07/new-review-from-matthew-komatsu-adin-dobkins-sprinting-through-no-mans-land/
• https://www.columbiajournal.org/articles/writing-and-riding-an-interview-with-adin-dobkin-shalvi-j-shah
• https://thestrategybridge.org/the-bridge/2017/5/8/reviewing-and-interviewing-war-stories
• https://militarywritersguild.org/
• https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/never-ending-book-war/
• https://maudlinhouse.net/reckoning-with-all-the-devastation-that-remains-an-interview-with-adin-dobkin/
• https://heated.medium.com/my-grandfather-journaled-during-his-time-in-a-german-pow-camp-54edeaba4f4e
• https://ameniafreereview.site/