He is a contributing editor for ''
Harper's, Virginia Quarterly Review, and Rolling Stone. His work has also appeared in Vanity Fair
, The New York Times Magazine, GQ, Esquire, Lapham's Quarterly, Oxford American, Bookforum, The Washington Post, Mother Jones, New York, Advocate, Guernica,
The Chronicle of Higher Education, Columbia Journalism Review, New Statesman, The Nation, The New Republic, Forward, and The Baffler''. He has taught at
New York University and is the Frederick Sessions Beebe '35 Professor in the Art of Writing at
Dartmouth College. He is the recipient of the
National Magazine Award for Reporting, the
MOLLY National Journalism Prize, the
International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission's Outspoken Award, and the
Military Religious Freedom Foundation's Thomas Jefferson Award. Sharlet is the co-creator of two online journals:
Killing the Buddha, a literary magazine about religion, co-founded with
Peter Manseau and
The Revealer, a review of religion and media published by the
New York University Center for Religion and Media. He is the former editor-in-chief of
Pakn Treger, a journal published by the
National Yiddish Book Center. Sharlet's interest in religion developed during childhood. Sharlet's mother was from a
Pentecostal Christian background. His father is of
secular Jewish background. Raised in an eclectic religious environment, attending various people's churches and temples, he has said that he gravitates to stories about people's beliefs as the most natural way to engage the world. Sharlet was an executive producer of the five-part
Netflix series
The Family (2019), based on his books
The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power and
C Street: The Fundamentalist Threat to American Democracy.
The Fellowship Foundation, aka The Family, hosts the annual
National Prayer Breakfast in DC. Sharlet appears in interview segments throughout the series. ==Published books==