Tucson Festival of Books

Jacob Soboroff



Jason Frank Rothenberg

Jacob Soboroff is an MSNBC senior political and national correspondent who comes to the festival with the newly published "Firestorm," an in-depth look at the wildfires that devastated Los Angeles last year. Soboroff lives in L.A., where his brother lost his home in Pacific Palisades. Soboroff's previous book was The New York Times bestseller "Separated: Inside an American Tragedy," which explored the  Trump administration’s child separation policy.

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Awards: Walter Cronkite Award for Individual Achievement by a National Journalist + Hillman Prize for Broadcast Journalism


Books:
Firestorm
The Great Los Angeles Fires and America's New Age of Disaster
Current Issues / Politics / Social Science
HarperCollins Publishers
January 2026
ISBN 9780063467965
400 pages

Separated
Inside an American Tragedy
Current Issues / Politics / Social Science
HarperCollins Publishers
June 2021
ISBN 9780062992208
388 pages
$17.99