George Howe Colt

George Howe Colt is an American journalist and author.

He is the author of November of the Soul: The Enigma of Suicide (1991), The Big House (2003), Brothers (2012), and The Game (2018). He is married to author Anne Fadiman.

Colt was a staff writer for Life. His 2003 book about his last summer with his family at their summer house on Cape Cod, The Big House, was a finalist for the National Book Award.

He graduated from Harvard University. His uncle was the lawyer and politician James Colt; the Colts are related to the prominent Forbes family, through which a distant cousin is the politician and diplomat John Kerry.

Books

 * Th e Enigma of Suicide, 1991, Scribner
 * No vember of the Soul: The Enigma of Suicide, 2006, Scribner
 * The Big House: A Century in the Life of an American Summer Home, 2003, Scribner
 * Brothers: On His Brothers and Brothers in History, 2012, Scribner
 * The Game: Harvard, Yale, and America in 1968, 2018, Scribner

Magazine articles

 * Colt, George Howe, article on "Westchester cluster" of suicides that served as a source for his book, LIFE, 1984
 * Colt, George Howe & Hollister, Anne, "How Earthquakes Happen," LIFE, February 1989
 * Colt, George Howe, "See Me, Feel Me, Touch Me, Heal Me," LIFE, September 1996
 * Colt, George Howe, "Were You Born That Way?," LIFE, 1998